Tourism and wetland conservation: application of travel cost and willingness to pay an entry fee at Ghodaghodi Lake Complex, Nepal

Lamsal, Pramod; Atreya, Kishor; Pant, Krishna Prasad; Kumar, Lalit

doi:10.1111/1477-8947.12089

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“…By using travel cost method, the value of the recreational site are to be inferred by collecting and processing the travel costs that the people have to pay to visit that site (Bockstael, 1995). Travel costs consist of transportation expenses, entering fee to the recreation area and costs of travelling time, therefore the term "travel costs" refers to the total cost of a visit or trip (Lamsal et. al, 2016;Zhang et.…”

Section: Revealed Preference Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Value Measurement Methods for Ports

Akdaş¹,

Cerit²

2019

4. Ulusal Liman Kongresi

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Port facilities are amongst the most important points of the maritime industry. The valuation literature evaluates industrial facilities and their assets from an operational point of view, but by nature, ports locate on coastal areas and have "social value" due to this feature. Although the literature on the valuation of natural resources does not define the value it calculates as social value, this value is indeed social value when evaluations made in terms of the features it shows and the data sources used. The aim of this study is to reveal the scientific methods that can be used to determine the social value of a port and to contribute to the existing methods classifications with an industrial perspective. In this study, a proposal has been developed for the port facilities by emphasizing the social aspects of existing total economic value approaches. The most appropriate method for the port valuation is the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) and it is regarded as the tool under the "Stated Preferences" methods. The results can be used as a source for scientists, policy makers, decision makers and investors on port industry. Determining the methods to be used for measuring the social value of a port and determining the steps to be taken to calculate this value can be regarded as the contributions to the mentioned parties.

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Section: Revealed Preference Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Value Measurement Methods for Ports

Akdaş¹,

Cerit²

2019

4. Ulusal Liman Kongresi

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“…They are important for policy makers to understand the values of biodiversity at species, community and ecosystem levels in national economies. Research in Nepal has ranged from using contingent valuation [85] to assess the value of vultures [68,69], using travel cost methods to explore the values of wetlands [86], to assessing possibilities for, and economics of, implementing REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, [87]). Various findings have shown that fees foreign tourists are willing to pay for entry permits into PAs are frequently higher than what governments charge (e.g.…”

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On the Road to Sustainability? A Review of a Half-Century of Biodiversity Conservation Successes in Nepal and Some Thoughts on Future Needs

Heinen¹,

Baral²,

Paudel³

et al. 2020

Protected Areas, National Parks and Sustainable Future

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We review the history, over the past half-century, of biodiversity conservation legislation and programs in Nepal. We especially consider how they have evolved in light of some earlier concerns resulting from, for example, the strict "fines and fences" conservation approaches first implemented in the 1970s, to pressing issues that emerged over time such as park-people and wildlife-human conflicts, poaching and illegal wildlife trade. We also consider how the implementation of international conservation agreements and demographic and political changes have affected conservation programs in Nepal. We finish by discussing conservation in the context of sustainable development and conclude with some thoughts on future research and managerial needs in a rapidly-changing world.

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“…Thus, in this paper, we seek to explore whether these two methods give consistent results when assessing the ecosystem services values of the same wetland. This research contributes to identifying a more accurate and efficient scale transform method for wetland evaluation at a larger space-scale, providing a technique tool for establishing wetland ecological compensation systems at different spatial patterns, conducting large-scale wetland protection projects, and accounting for green GDP [28][29][30][31]. The high-precision model can also be used in evaluating the ecological services of cross-regional, national and even international wetlands in further application.…”

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Addressing the Modelling Precision in Evaluating the Ecosystem Services of Coastal Wetlands

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Wetlands are one of the world's most productive ecosystems, and therefore it is crucial that management decisions regarding wetlands incorporate awareness of accurate assessments of the value of their respective ecosystem services. In this paper, we seek to improve the modelling precision in the scale transform process of ecosystem service evaluation. Firstly, we selected eight services as the criteria to calculate wetland ecosystem values: substance production, flood control, carbon sequestration, gas regulation, climate regulation, wave reduction, adding new lands, recreation and education. Then, six coastal wetlands of Liaoning province were chosen as the case study areas, and their ecosystem values were calculated by empirical method. Next, we simulated ecosystem values of the six cases by two spatial-scales transform methods named meta-analysis and wavelet transform. Finally, we compared the two groups of simulated values with the empirical measured values to examine their evaluation precisions. The results indicated that the total precision of the wavelet transform model (0.968) was higher than that of meta-analysis (0.712). In addition, the simulated values of single services such as substance production, flood control, carbon sequestration, gas regulation, and climate regulation were closer to the measured values using wavelet transform model. This research contributes to identifying an evaluation model with higher precision for evaluating wetland ecosystem services in the process of scale transform.

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Tourism and wetland conservation: application of travel cost and willingness to pay an entry fee at Ghodaghodi Lake Complex, Nepal

Abstract: This study investigated the need and applicability of wetland tourism for resource conservation, using the case of Ghodaghodi

Cited by 29 publications

References 44 publications

Social Value Measurement Methods for Ports

Social Value Measurement Methods for Ports

On the Road to Sustainability? A Review of a Half-Century of Biodiversity Conservation Successes in Nepal and Some Thoughts on Future Needs

Addressing the Modelling Precision in Evaluating the Ecosystem Services of Coastal Wetlands

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