From supply to demand factors: what are the determinants of attractiveness for outdoor recreation?

Léa Tardieu (lea.tardieu@nancy.inra.fr) and Laetitia Tufféry (laetitia.tuffery@unimes.fr)
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Léa Tardieu: CIRED - centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Laetitia Tufféry: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The concept of ecosystem services (ES) remains underused in supporting practical decisions in conservation/development plans and programs. One of the most important factors explaining this non-consideration is the lack of spatial information describing the nature-society relationship in environmental and economic analyses. In this paper, we developed a novel method to predict, in spatially explicit terms, the recreation attractiveness potential combining supply and demand factors. Our method is based on the combination and transfer of a Lancasterian function of biophysical aspects and a travel cost model based on agents' sociodemographic characteristics. We further validate the usefulness of the proposed recreation model by using it in the evaluation of a regional park charter pursuing two main objectives: recreational attractiveness and habitat quality (modeled with InVEST). The results demonstrate first that the biophysical context plays a large role in the recreational trip choice and thus should not be ignored in travel cost studies. Second, from a policy guidance perspective, we show that providing spatial information appears particularly critical for ES to be a useful lever for action in day-today decision-making.

Keywords: Forest recreational attractiveness; Supply and demand factors; Travel cost method; Function benefit transfer; Regional park strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Ecological Economics, 2019, 161, pp.163 - 175. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.03.022⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.03.022

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