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Actual and potential recreation value of forests in Germany
Project
Project code: TI-WF-08-PID1113
Contract period: 01.10.2011
- 31.03.2013
Purpose of research: Applied research
This project's goal is to investigate and analyse the monetary value of the recreation service of German forests, and its regional distribution. Based on a representative survey among the German population, the willingness to pay (WTP) for forest visits and the potential for increasing the recreation service is being determined. The survey utilizes an approach which has been applied already two decades earlier in several regional case studies. Thus it is possible to scrutinize the development of recreation preferences over time. Regional differences of recreation preferences become systematically comparable for the first time because of the nationwide design of the current survey; specifically, valuation results are now available for the eastern federal states, too, which have not been covered in earlier studies. As an addition to the representative survey, an internet survey is conducted with the same questionnaire. The comparison of both surveys will reveal whether future similar data collections might be possible at lower costs, but without significant loss of reliability. In comparison to the previous studies, the recent survey has been expanded in terms of content: In addition to asking for the WTP for the actual state of the forests, it is also investigated which changes in forest composition and recreation supplies are desired by the respondents, and how much they would be willing to pay for those individual changes. This provides for determining an upper limit of the potential WTP for forest visits (and thus, of the recreation value of the forests), which might be attainable e.g. by specific recreation facilities or by more nature oriented forest management. This application of the Contingent Valuation Method aimed at valuing the willingness to pay (WTP) for the right to access residential and regional forests over one year. Additionally it was asked which improvements are desired by the population, and what their WTP would be for these improvements. Data were collected by 1.011 personal interviews from a representative population sample. Additionally 1.049 answers from an internet panel survey were available.
Section overview
Subjects
- Forestry
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics (TI-IW)
