@article{Abildtrup:199434,
      recid = {199434},
      author = {Abildtrup, Jens},
      title = {Determinants of demand for forest recreation.},
      journal = {Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the Biennial  Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics},
      address = {2012-05},
      number = {1333-2016-103830},
      pages = {2},
      year = {2012},
      note = {Subject Title: Abstract},
      abstract = {The determinants of the recreational value of forest  include the site quality, including their
accessibility,  and the distribution of alternative forest and non-forest  sites which may serve as
substitutes or complementary  recreational sites. Compared to previous studies, we focus  on
local context variables (urbanization and urban green  space) in the demand for forest recreation.
We carry out a  web-based survey on a sample of residents in Lorraine  (North-East of France).
In particular, we test the  compensation hypothesis, suggesting that people with less  green space
in their own residential environments make more  frequent trips to parks or nature reserves.
Respondents who  had visited at least one forest during the last twelve  months were asked to
identify the most visited forest on an  interactive map integrated in the online  questionnaire.
They participated also in a choice  experiment where they were asked to choose  between
hypothetical forests and the most visited forest  during the last 12 months. An extensive database
describing  the more than 5000 forests (recreational forest units) in  Lorraine by recreational
facilities, forest structure and  ecological variables are established. The demand is  estimated
using the so-called linked-model, i.e. combining  a site selection model and a count model for
trip demand.  Both the stated and revealed preference data indicate that  visitors have an
additional willingness to pay for forest  with parking and picnic places, marked trekking  paths,
lakes or rivers, and forest dominated by broad-leaf  tree species or mixed tree species compared
to coniferous  forests without recreational facilities and waterbodies.  While we did not find a
significant effect of urban green  space on the demand for forest visits we showed that  the
number of visits in urban park decreases with an  increasing expected utility of a forest visit,
indicating  substitution between forests and urban parks in the demand  for high-frequency
outdoor recreation.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199434},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.199434},
}