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- Ezebilo, Eugene Ejike
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Maintenance of public amenity to improve access to nature area: does distance and expected economic benefits matter?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2190-6483 .- 2190-6491. ; 4, s. 240-249
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Advocates of national park are often of the opinion that benefits from ecotourism will compensate people whose livelihoods are affected by conservation policy. This paper reports on a study which explored whether local people consider distance of their homes to a national park and future economic benefits from ecotourism when eliciting their willingness to pay for rural road that could help improve access to the park for ecotourism. The possibilities for designing an ecotourism strategy that benefits people who live around the national park are discussed. The data originated from a contingent valuation survey which involves personal interviews of community members around the Okwangwo Division of the Cross River National Park in south-east Nigeria and were analysed using a two-stage least squares regression model. The results showed that the respondents consider location of the national park and whether they will benefit from businesses related to ecotourism when stating their willingness to pay. The interviewees who live 7.1 to 10km to the Okwangwo Division had the highest willingness to pay, and those who live not more than 1km had the lowest. The interviewees who expect to get economic benefits from ecotourism in the future had higher willingness to pay than those who did not expect. The willingness to pay was influenced by distance, expected economic benefits, income, age and gender. The findings will contribute to planning and design of a more acceptable and sustainable ecotourism strategy near nature conservation areas.
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- Sundberg, Cecilia
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Are households willing to pay for full-cost solid waste collection? Evidence from Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2190-6483 .- 2190-6491. ; 1, s. 144-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Solid waste generation and its collection have become a major concern of town planning authorities in recent years as a result of increased population and consumption levels. As part of efforts to improve solid waste collection delivery in the city of Kumasi, full payments by residents have been considered to curb the increasing quantum of money being spent on collection delivery. Are households willing to pay for this service? The authors employed double-bound contingent valuation method to determine the households' willingness to pay for the full cost of solid waste collection in the Kumasi metropolis of Ghana which generates an approximately 1,000 tons of solid waste per day. The paper established that, presently, households would be unwilling to pay for the full-cost solid waste collection service. The paper further found out that the key socio-economic factors that could influence the payment of this service by the households were the age, gender, employment, income (price bid), and education.
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