AN ANALYSIS OF WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE IN WILDERNESS OR OTHER PRIMITIVE AREAS

Murali Adhikari, John Bergstrom, Jack E. Houston, James Michael Bowker, Laxmi Paudel and H. Ken Cordell

No 35093, 2003 Annual Meeting, February 1-5, 2003, Mobile, Alabama from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: A logit model was used to determine the major factors explaining willingness to participate of an individual in the wilderness or other primitive area visits. The results of the study showed that education and environmental awareness were in wilderness participation decision. Demographic variables like age, race, and sex also were statistically significant and emerged as important policy variables in defining wilderness participation behavior. Characteristics of wilderness areas like crowdness, pollution, and poor management failed to produce any significant impacts in the decision making process of wilderness area visit.

Keywords: Consumer/Household; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.35093

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