Metropolitan residents' preferences and willingness to pay for a life zone forest for mitigating heat island effects during summer season in Korea

Dong Hyeon Kim; Byeong Il Ahn; Eui Gyeong Kim

doi:10.3390/su8111155

Metropolitan residents' preferences and willingness to pay for a life zone forest for mitigating heat island effects during summer season in Korea

Dong Hyeon Kim, Byeong Il Ahn, Eui Gyeong Kim

Department of Food and Resource Economics

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Abstract

Coupled with green house effects, the urban heat island is occurring more frequently, and thus is becoming a serious social problem. In order to elicit policy implications, the current study assesses the economic values on the heat island-mitigating functions of urban forest through choice experiments. The analytical results suggest that metropolitan city residents' utility can be increased by raising the size of life zone forests which is comprised of street trees, parks in residential regions, and small forests in school zones. The derived marginal willingness to pay for the life zone forests suggest that the respondents are willing to pay $56.68-76.59 for every increase of the urban forest by 1 m²..

Original language	English
Article number	1155
Journal	Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume	8
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su8111155
Publication status	Published - 2016 Nov 10

Keywords

Choice experiment
Heat island
Non-market goods
Urban forests
Willingness to pay

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Geography, Planning and Development
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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