Because of the special location of the Uremia Lake and its position in the immigration way of immigrant birds, this lake has an enormous environmental importance. There for, studying conservative value of this place could express the importance of its protection, predicting needs, removing scarcities and the investment to protect. There for this research is to estimate conservative value of Urmiya Lake using contingent valuation method. To determine affecting factors on people’s willingness to pay, a logit model was estimated using maximum likelihood approach. Required data was obtained through questionnaires and interviewing with 107 individuals who were selected from Urmia’s families in 2010 year. Results indicated that 59.1 percents of respondents were ready to pay to protect. Also, results revealed that factors like education, family’s revenue, information level about this lake and the environmental desires of respondents had positive and significant effect, while amount of bid a had negative and significant effect on probability of willingness to pay of respondents. The annual mean value of WTP for protecting current situation of the Urmiya lake is 122500 Rls and for the improvement of its condition is 149800 Rls. Also the estimated total improvement value of the lake was 23019.9 million RLs. Trying to extend society’s awareness and supporting environmental NGOs besides more concentration on Urmiya Lake’s protection are suggested in this research.
Hayati, B., Maliki, M., Hosseinzad, J., & Haghjou, M. (2014). The Conservative and Improvement Value of Urumiye Lake from Urmian Citizen’s Point of View. Agricultural Economics, 8(Special Issue), 123-136.
MLA
Babollah Hayati; Mina Maliki; Javad Hosseinzad; Marayam Haghjou. "The Conservative and Improvement Value of Urumiye Lake from Urmian Citizen’s Point of View". Agricultural Economics, 8, Special Issue, 2014, 123-136.
HARVARD
Hayati, B., Maliki, M., Hosseinzad, J., Haghjou, M. (2014). 'The Conservative and Improvement Value of Urumiye Lake from Urmian Citizen’s Point of View', Agricultural Economics, 8(Special Issue), pp. 123-136.
VANCOUVER
Hayati, B., Maliki, M., Hosseinzad, J., Haghjou, M. The Conservative and Improvement Value of Urumiye Lake from Urmian Citizen’s Point of View. Agricultural Economics, 2014; 8(Special Issue): 123-136.
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