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APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 129-145Publisher
CORVINUS UNIV BUDAPEST
DOI: 10.15666/aeer/1403_129145
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ecological evaluation; willingness to pay; ecosystem service; natural resources; water preservation
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The need for integrating natural resources into the development and decision-making processes of various sectors on a political level is becoming more and more apparent in the European Union. The number of ecological evaluation projects is on the rise, the areas of usage include anywhere from local, through national, to global levels. This study's results offer answers to: how local, and regional (national) Willingness to Pay (WTP for short), in other words, social interpretation of natural resources differ through Hungary; and how income, or personal connection becomes a defining factor for forming preferences regarding certain values. Local and regional WTP values were compared to the social-related costs of both a local, and a national ecological evaluation project. The analyses showed that different WTP evaluations yielded very different results, and that actual rehabilitation costs can be defined via different characteristics for various projects.
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