regarding the importance of natural resources in preserving natural ecosystem and human being survival, protecting these resources and preventing their demolition will be necessary. taleghan lake, alborz, is studied o determine the protective value and measuring the willingness of people. using the ahp approach, this study is different by using and non-using value of the lake. results from lagi...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to investigate people's willingness to pay to sustain the current National Health Insurance (NHI) program in Taiwan and to extend that program to cover long-term care services. METHODS A survey was administered to 1800 inpatients and 1800 outpatients, selected from health care facilities across all accreditation levels that were operating under ...

because of national and international importance of the anzali international wetland, this study attempts to determine the preservation value and estimate willingness to pay (wtp) by iranian households for preserving this wetland, using contingent valuation method. a logit model was employed with maximum likelihood estimation procedure. results showed, education level of householder, informativ...

BACKGROUND Understanding the feasibility of achieving widespread coverage with Insecticide-Treated Nets has to be preceded by learning how people value the Insecticide-Treated Nets and estimating the potential demand and willingness to pay so that sustainability of the intervention can be assured. The objective of this study was to determine willingness to pay for Insecticide-Treated Nets among...

agricultural extension services have been playing a central role in transformation process of agricultural sector in nigeria but there are challenges which affect the quality of service delivery especially increasing cost of services and poor funding and therefore, promoting emergence of new extension strategies offered by private sector . the study investigated the perception of maize crop far...

background: one of the economic evaluation techniques involves calculation of willingness to pay (wtp) for a service to find out the value of that service from the clients’ perspective. this study estimated wtp for both breast cancer and osteoporosis screening and comparatively examined the contributing factors. in fact, the comparisons served to provide an exact analysis of individual attitude...

although there is a tendency worldwide towards alternative methods in effectively managing weeds, use of herbicides to control weeds in conventional agriculture is still inevitable. with regard to externalities (through unsystematic use of herbicides) imposed upon environment, in the present paper it has been tried to study the willingness to pay of wheat farmers to plan for reducing the side e...

introduction nowadays because of various economic problems in rural areas it is necessary to pay attention to new economic activities such as tourism, in order to overcome economic challenges as well as achieving sustainable development goals. estimating tourist's willingness to pay and analyzing the affecting factors on it, along with the economical and social demands of people could dema...