Urban park’s ecological and recreational aspects in developing country: evaluating the Bãngr-Weoogo Park in Ouagadougou

Sidnoma Abdoul Aziz Traore and Jean-Michel Salles ()
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Sidnoma Abdoul Aziz Traore: LAMETA - Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - UM1 - Université Montpellier 1 - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier, UM1 - Université Montpellier 1

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Abstract: The recognition of recreational and conservation benefits of protected areas provides a usable economic rationale for their management. The value of recreational and conservation benefits of the Bãngr-Weoogo urban parks at Ouagadoudou in Burkina Faso is evaluated using choice experiment. We aim to see if visitors' preferences shared between recreation and biodiversity of urban park, at first views divergent, can be reconcilable in developing countries context by identifying trade-offs between the different characteristics of the park. Our results show that current Park is preferred and increase of biodiversity level is the feature able to improve the visitors' well-being. Likewise, modification of current recreational restrictions or the increase of relaxing areas reduces their welfare.

Keywords: biodiversity management; choice experiment; developing country; recreation restrictions; urban forest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09-11
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Published in 1. Conférence annuelle de la FAERE, French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (FAERE). FRA., Sep 2014, Montpellier, France. 18 p

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