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Was the trip worth it? Consistency between decisionand experienced utility assessments of recreationalnature visits

  • This paper assesses the relationship between decision util-ity and experienced utility of recreational nature visits.The former is measured as the travel cost to reach that siteas routinely used by the travel cost method (TCM), andthe latter is operationalized through visit-related subjec-tive well-being (SWB). As such, the analysis is a test ofconvergent validity by examining whetherex anteTCM-based assessment of recreational value reflecting decisionutility corresponds to statedex postSWB, reflecting expe-rienced utility. It explores to what extent utility revealedby counts of nature visits are associated with self-reported,visit-related SWB relating to that same visited site. Theanalysis uses two existing datasets providing informationon (i) 3672 recreational visits to green/blue spaces inEngland over the course of four years and (ii) 5937 recrea-tional visits to bluespace sites across 14 European coun-tries over one year. Results show a positive associationbetween travel cost and visit-related SWB while control-ling for trip frequency and a large set of covariates,suggesting convergent validity of the two utility concepts.A breakdown by travel mode suggests this relationshiponly holds for trips involving motorized transport and isnot present for habitual, chore-like walking visits to therecreational site.

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Author:Tobias Börger
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:b721-opus4-36936
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12328
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2022/06/09
Publishing Institution:Hochschulbibliothek HWR Berlin
Release Date:2022/06/13
Tag:experienced utility; green/blue spaces; natural environments; revealedpreference valuation; subjective wellbeing
Issue:American Journal ofAgricultural Economics
Page Number:21
First Page:1
Last Page:21
Institutes:FB I - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Open Access Publikationen (DINI-Set):open_access
Open Access Publikations financed by DEAL Project:Open Access Publikations financed by DEAL Project
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Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International