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FOREST RESOURCES WANAGEMENT ›› 2013›› Issue (3): 63-68.

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Recreation Value Evaluation Based on CVM for Changqing National Nature Reserve

LIU Jie, MENG Quanxing   

  1. College of Economics and Management,Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University,Yangling,Shaanxi 712100,China
  • Received:2013-04-07 Revised:2013-05-06 Online:2013-06-28 Published:2020-11-20

Abstract: Changqing National Nature Reserve in Shaanxi Province is taken as the research area in this paper.The value of its recreational resources was researched quantitatively by adopting the Contingent Valuation Method(CVM).The investigation concluded that the value of the tourists’ willingness to pay(WTP) is 80 yuan per year and the value of its recreational resources is 35.6 million yuan per year.Meanwhile,the relationship between population features and WTP shows that the age,occupation,educational level,monthly income,environmental awareness and landscape satisfaction are positively correlated with WTP,and the age,educational level,monthly income,travel propensity,tourist understanding of the reserve area and landscape satisfaction are positively correlated with WTP.

Key words: CVM, value of recreational resources, nature eeserv

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