Publish In |
International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS)-IJMAS |
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Issue |
Volume-2,Issue-11, Special Issue-2 ( Nov, 2016 ) | |||||||||
Paper Title |
Landscape Assessment – A Case Study of Sumava Mountains, Protected Landscape Area | |||||||||
Author Name |
Michaela Havlikova, Zdenka Zakova Kroupova, Pavlina Halova, Lukas Cechura, Michal Maly | |||||||||
Affilition |
Czech University of Life Science in Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, Department of Economics | |||||||||
Pages |
4-6 | |||||||||
Abstract |
Landscape is considered to be a public good, which is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous for individual use. As other public goods, landscape is not markable good. For assessing its value, several methods are used including willingness-to-pay, travel cost methods, choice experiment. This paper conducts a small case study application of willingness to pay method, as a method used in majority studies, for assessing the landscape value in Šumava Mountains. Results gathered from a survey serve to identify several groups of respondents their willingness to pay for an entrance fee (pass). Key words- Landscape; Willingness-To-Pay; Stated Preferences; Šumava Mountains. | |||||||||
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