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Abstract
The São José Environmental Protection Area (EPA) in the
State of Minas Gerais has a rich natural and historical patrimony.
However, in spite of its value and of being a protection area since
1981, it has now suffering several degradations. In that sense, the
major objective of this work is to value São José EPA with the purpose
of supplying subsidies for the elaboration and attainment of public
and private projects of preservation or sustainable exploration of the
referred asset, as well as for public policy directed to its administration.
As valuation method, it was used the contingent valuation through
the approach of Hanemann (1984) and the bootstrapping method to
obtain a monthly willingness-to-pay (WTP) per family of the municipal
districts that compose São José EPA of R$22,88, with a relatively low
standard-error, R$3,25. As for the reliability of the estimate measure,
stands out the concern of the present work in trying to avoid or to
minimize the bias that usually happen in researches of environmental
valuation.