A Brief Economic Assessment on the Valuation of National and Natural Parks: the Case of Romania

Dumitraş, Diana E.; Arion, Felix; Merce, Emilian

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“…Main interests focused on tourists' behavior towards: ecotourism and nature based tourism development [10,[14][15][16], recreation activities [17,18], interest to support nature conservation and/or policies [19][20][21], alternative management scenarios considering both biodiversity and recreational services [7], and public lands management under competing uses [22]. There have been only a few studies on the economic value of Romanian national and natural parks [23][24][25].…”

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Assessing Tourists’ Preferences for Recreational Trips in National and Natural Parks as a Premise for Long-Term Sustainable Management Plans

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Sustainable tourism management plans rely on relevant and consistent information about factors that can influence the decision to visit a protected area. This paper uses the choice experiment method to investigate tourists' preferences with regard to recreational trip characteristics in national and natural parks in Romania. An on-site survey questionnaire was administered to visitors. The multinomial logit model was employed to investigate the preference orderings of the identified groups of recreational users. Overall, results indicate that tourists gain benefits after visiting the parks. Main preference differences were found for information sources and location of campsites. Visitors who stated that the park was the main trip destination were willing to have access to more information sources, the marks on trails being insufficient. Camping is preferred only in organized places, expressing the concern for environmental protection. The results of this study have management implications, highlighting the importance of assessing tourists' preferences as a foundation for developing sustainable tourism strategies.

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Assessing Tourists’ Preferences for Recreational Trips in National and Natural Parks as a Premise for Long-Term Sustainable Management Plans

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“…new protected areas to be created) or following a deterioration of the environment in a specic area (Philips 1998). Comprehensive economic valuation of protected areas as public assets aims at identifying their Total Economic Value (TEV) (Dumitraş et al 2011;Zawilińska 2014;Z ylicz 2000. In the TEV concept, various categories of economic value of natural environment are distinguished.…”

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Exploring the economic impact of national parks on the local economy. Functional approach in the context of Poland’s transition economy

Mika¹,

Zawilinska²,

Pawlusiński³

2016

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The article presents the methodological assumptions in functional approach for exploring the economic impact of national parks on the local economy. The original model of systemic analysis proposed and discussed in the article allows the broad spectrum of direct and indirect economic relations of national parks with their immediate spatial surrounding to be analysed. The discussion on the economic aspects of national parks' operation relates to the specic conditions of Poland's transition economy. The factors determining the economic function of a national park in the local economy include legal regulations which specify the powers of the park's managing body and regulate the park's behaviour on the local market; the attractiveness of the park's location as a tourist destination; the scale of growth and commercialisation of tourism. Also important is the local social and economic context in which the national parks are embedded. Endogenous and exogenous determinants of the operation of Polish national parks determine the dynamic nature of their local economic relations.Key Words national parks, economic impact, local development, Poland, methodology. :Article Info: Received: November 2, 2015; Revised: December 10, 2015; Accepted: December 23, 2015; Online: December 31, 2015. The economic role of national parks as a research questionThe evolution of functional relations between national parks and their immediate spatial surrounding continues to be a source of numerous new research problems. It is a subject of much discussion in today's scientic

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“…Valoarea media a disponibilității de a plăti, pentru cele cinci arii a fost calculată la 18,2 €/vizită (Dumitraș et al 2011).…”

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Plata serviciilor ecosistemice: context legal si metode consacrate de evaluare, cu aplicatie la paduri

Drăgoi¹,

Cirnu²

2016

Bucov. For.

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Abstract. This review attempts to present the most important problems raised by ecosystem services evaluation, together with the juridical framework needed for endorsing a long run system of payments. In Romania the legal framework wherein the payments for ecosystem services shall be implemented has been created by the all three Forest Acts adopted by the Parliament since 1996 and the article highlights the pitfalls of the legal provisions referring to these payments. The key-word of the two law articles referred to by the study is the fair price of the ecosystem services, a price which cannot be captured by the market since such a market doesn't exist neither in Romania nor in other similar countries. Another important issue we have brought into discussion is the inappropriateness of any system of payments in the context of illegal cuttings, simply because the opportunity costs that shall be compensated doesn't exist when illegal cuttings occur. Some methodological details are also presented in order to demonstrate that a fair price always depends on the context of evaluation and the statistical imprecision is inherent as long as the any evaluation is carried out on sample of data. However these monetary assessments can be used as economic arguments in any public debate or bargain between ecosystem services providers and users. Keywords ecosystem services, payment IntroducereServiciile ecosistemice, cunoscute în practica amenajării pădurilor drept funcții de protecție (FP), au cele două atribute ale bunurilor publice perfecte: non-rivalitatea și non-exclusivitatea. Non-rivalitatea înseamnă că același bun poată fi folosit simultan de mai mulți oameni, iar non-exclusivitatea presupune ca utilizarea unui astfel de bun să nu fie condiționată în niciun fel de ofertant sau producător. Învăță-mântul primar și securitatea națională intră în categoria serviciilor publice perfecte (Farley și Costanza 2010).

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A Brief Economic Assessment on the Valuation of National and Natural Parks: the Case of Romania

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Assessing Tourists’ Preferences for Recreational Trips in National and Natural Parks as a Premise for Long-Term Sustainable Management Plans

Assessing Tourists’ Preferences for Recreational Trips in National and Natural Parks as a Premise for Long-Term Sustainable Management Plans

Exploring the economic impact of national parks on the local economy. Functional approach in the context of Poland’s transition economy

Plata serviciilor ecosistemice: context legal si metode consacrate de evaluare, cu aplicatie la paduri

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