کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1056706 | 1485299 | 2012 | 12 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
This paper analyses whether the environmental profile of park visitors as defined by the components of the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Value-Belief-Norm Theory, determines their willingness to pay for park conservation. The sample consists of 194 visitors to a suburban Spanish park. Under these theories, it is shown that positive attitudes, a strong orientation towards biospheric and altruistic values with strong pro-environmental and normative beliefs determine the visitors' willingness to pay. Various fit statistics and the proportion of explained variance reveal that Theory of Planned Behavior has a greater influence on willingness to pay. The managers of urban spaces should direct their efforts to obtaining greater knowledge of people's attitudes, beliefs and pro-environmental values given their importance in their decisions regarding economic valuation of this sort of resources.
► The estimation of the willingness to pay for the conservation of a suburban park.
► To compare the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Value-Belief-Norm Theory.
► The positive attitudes determine the willingness to pay.
► The Theory of Planned Behavior has more predictive power to explain WTP.
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management - Volume 113, 30 December 2012, Pages 251–262