| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 公共事務管理研究所 === 101 === Abstract
After humans over-developed natural resources, environment has been severely damaged and there are series of storms and floods, people gradually understand the importance of environmental protection and sustainable development of ecology. With busy life and great stress, it is more important for modern people to have appropriate rest. This research selected Jhongdou Wetlands Park with the functions of flood control, leisure, ecological education commentary and bio-diversity conservation as research area and with double-bounded dichotomous from contingent valuation method to understand non-market value of Jhongdou Wetlands Park.
This research adopted questionnaire survey and a total 410 effective questionnaires were retrieved. The obtained data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t test and one-way ANOVA, etc. The results of this research are as follow:
1.This is a significant perception for interviewers in leisure benefits of Jhongdou Wetlands Park.
2.There are significant differences between leisure benefits, “gender”, “marital status” and “age”.
3.There are significant differences between each aspect of leisure benefits with willingness to pay, except there is no significant difference in third part of willingness to pay in aspect of psychology enriches life benefits and there is no significant difference in fourth part of willing to pay 150 dollars with aspect of leisure benefits.
4.There are significant differences between “desire of willingness to pay”, “gender”, “occupation”, “age”, “educational level”, “marital status” and background of “participating in environmental groups”.
5.The average “amount for willingness to pay” of interviewers is 72.9 dollars. After adding applicable items (regularly holds activities of eco promotion) , the average willingness to pay increased to 125.51 dollars, while adding park activities such as canoe or kayak, the willingness to pay increased to 167.34 dollars.
6.It provides long or short term suggestions according to the results from the research. If it wants to introduce canoe or kayak into park activities, it shall be carefully assessed that is there any risk on damage of the ecological conservation. Moreover, it shall set up more pavilions, chairs or facilities for sheltering or a bulletin board at the entrance so that the public can rest and learn the information about activities in the park. It gives suggestion that the government can look farther when making policy planning, find a suitable solution, so that ecological park is not just a park, it can not only improve the visibility of Kaohsiung City, but also bring a lot of economic benefit.
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