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  • Latent preferences of residents regarding an urban forest recreation setting in Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Japelj, Anže ...
    The goal of this study is to assess residents' preferences for a set of attributes describing the recreation setting in an urban forest (outstanding trees, forest openings, waymarks and information ... boards, and paved walking trails) and to explore the heterogeneity of those preferences. It was captured by a four-class latent class model used to segment a sample of residents of Ljubljana (the capital of Slovenia), who responded to a choice experiment-based poll. The survey focused on the Rožnik urban forest, for which preferences (also willingness-to-pay) for hypothetical changes in the attributes were assessed. Respondents in class 1 were invariant to changes in the recreation setting. Those in class 2 and 4 stated positive preferences for having more outstanding trees. Class 3 and 4 were in favour of increasing the area of forest openings and enhancing the maintenance of waymarks and information boards. Those in class 4 expressed positive preferences for more walking trails, whereas class 3 valued this negatively. Class membership was affected by respondent age, number of adults in the household, frequency of forest visits, income, and purpose of the visit.
    Source: Forest Policy and Economics : a companion journal to Forest Ecology and Management. - ISSN 1389-9341 (Vol. 71, 2016, str. 71-79)
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2016
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 4203174

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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2015.10.003
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934115300514?via%3Dihub
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