Environmental perception of the Uberlandia habitants about the ecological station of Panga - a view under the environmental economics point
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6008/SPC2179-6858.2017.004.0025Keywords:
Ecological Station, Environmental Valuation, Contingent Valuation, WTP, PRAbstract
Environmental valuation is the process that seeks to estimate the economical value of natural resources by determining the equivalence to other resources available in Economy. Therefore, this paper objective is to identify the WTP and PR of two sample groups: area residents and researchers. It were applied 300 questionnaires to the residents group and 11 to the researchers group. The results showed that both groups presented positive WTP and negative PR, the WTP value was R$ 4.926.960 annual of the residents and R$ 5.498.182 annual of researchers. It was made logit model estimation to identify the variables that change the WTP and PR of the area residents. The conclusion was: the age, time of residing and incomes changed the WTP values positively. However, referring to PR values, it was notorious that men are more willing to receive, but people with big salaries are not that inclined to receive.
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