An Economic Assessment of impacts on visitors by cooperative funding: A case study applying CVM in Yakushima Island, Kagoshima, JAPAN

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  • 協力金が訪問行動に及ぼす影響の経済分析―屋久島におけるＣＶＭによる実証研究
  • キョウリョクキン ガ ホウモン コウドウ ニ オヨボス エイキョウ ノ ケイザイ ブンセキ ヤクシマ ニ オケル CVM ニ ヨル ジッショウ ケンキュウ

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Abstract

Movement in search of benefit-received principle spreads in natural parks in Japan as a background of financial difficulties. Although the principle is reasonable, impacts on visitors have never been studied so far, when price settings become higher than before or the number of recreation sites that introduce cost burden increase. This paper discusses issues on a cooperative funding, which is a widely-distributed practical method of benefit received principle in Japan. On-site sampling contingent valuation survey was conducted in Shiratani Unsuikyo and Yakusugi Land, Yakushima Island. The results indicate that an increase in setting of price from JPY 300 to 500 decrease 5% of the number of current visitors. And an increase in pricing to JPY 1, 000 decrease 20% of them. Furthermore higher pricing have more serious impact on younger visitors and visitors living in the vicinity of the island. Moreover, in the present circumstances, almost all of associations that operate the cooperative funding have independent accounting system and no partnership with other associations, therefore; prevalence of the current system without coordination has a possibility to impede the solution of the problems.

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  • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

    ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 21 (4), 307-316, 2008

    SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, JAPAN

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