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Urban forests have important aesthetic values contributing to the quality of urban life. The aesthetic difference in urban forests can cause negative or positive externalities, e.g., the loss or increase of non-priced benefits. Urban forestry planning, therefore, should systematically assess and commensurately measure the aesthetic value of urban forests, i.e., in monetary terms with material values. Here we present an empirical study for assessing the aesthetic value of urban forests using on-site survey data from 1,000 visitors in the loess hilly-gully area of Loess Plateau (Yan’an, northern Shaanxi, China). An assessment model is established by logistic regression and automated neural networks for measuring the objective and subjective influencing factors of aesthetic attitude and individual willingness to pay (WTP) recreation fees for consumption of the urban forest environment. The objective factors are directly linked to WTP and gains the largest weight in the system; The subjective factors exert strong influences on WTP; additionally, quality of urban virescence strongly affects the respondents’ aesthetic attitudes, thus influencing their WTP. Our results are useful for assessing ecosystem service function in urban forests, thus contributing to the management and sustainable development of urban forests in the study area as well as other forests in similar settings.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Study Area Description
 2. Material and Methods
  2.1. Data Collection and Field Survey
  2.2. Logistic Regression Model
  2.3. Automated Neural Networks Method
 3. Analysis on Influencing Factors
  3.1. Influencing Factors of Urban Forest Visitors
  3.2. Analysis on Influences of Objective Factors
  3.3. Analysis on Influences of Subjective Factors
 4. Discussion and Conclusions
 Acknowledgements
 References

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저자

• Mingxia Zhang [ Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China ]
• Dexiang Wang [ Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China ]
• Zhitao Wang [ Qinghai Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Xining 810016, China ]
• Xinping Zhang [ Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China ]
• Ganggang Zhang [ Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China ]
• Yong Xu [ Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China ]

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• 간행물명

  International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering

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  월간

• pISSN

  1975-0080

• 수록기간

  2008~2016

• 등재여부

  SCOPUS

• 십진분류

  KDC 505 DDC 605