生態農業：農業地景生態監測及復育【森林學系/柳婉郁特聘教授】
| 論文篇名 | 英文：Assessing the Ecological Value of an Urban Forest Park: A Case Study of Sinhua Forest Park in Taiwan 中文：評估都市森林公園之生態價值: 以新化林場為例 |
| 期刊名稱 | Forests. |
| 發表年份,卷數,起迄頁數 | 2021, 12(6), no.806 |
| 作者 | Liu, Wan-Yu(柳婉郁); Lin, Yo-Zheng; Hsieh, Chi-Ming* |
| DOI | 10.3390/f12060806 |
| 中文摘要 | 都市森林具有許多功能，除了可以減輕環境不利的影響外，亦可提供民眾休閒遊憩的地點，都市森林在都市生態上扮演著重要的角色，近年來更被廣泛研究運用於都市發展及森林公園管理的決策上。本研究之目的為評估新化林場之生態價值，並進一步探討受試者的年齡、教育程度、個人每月所得以及接觸綠地之頻率等社經背景對於新化林場生態保育之願付價格是否有顯著影響。本研究以問卷發放之形式於新化林場對遊客進行調查，並採用條件評估法中的支付卡法進行生態價值評估，研究結果顯示新化林場遊客每人每年願意支付之生態價值為677.9元新台幣，但若扣除具有抗議性想法之樣本後，願付價格將由677.9元提升至756.9元，進一步乘上年平均遊客人次後，推算新化林場總生態保育價格為43,949,613.8元/年，排除抗議性樣本後可達49,071,340.8元/年。本研究接續對遊客之性別、教育程度等社經背景進行分析，結果顯示：「男性」之平均願付價格較高，年齡為「60歲以上」較高，以教育程度為「高中職」較高，接觸綠地之頻率以「一週2-3次」之平均願付價格較高。本研究另以Tobit回歸模型進行分析，結果顯示教育程度與接觸綠地頻率會顯著影響新化林場的生態保育願付價格。 |
| 英文摘要 | Urban forests offer multiple functions: they can balance negative effects from the environment and provide the public with a place for leisure and recreation. Hence, urban forests are crucial to urban ecology and have been widely studied. In addition, relevant study results were applied for policy making in urban development and forest park management. This study evaluated the ecological value of the Sinhua Forest Park and examined whether the socioeconomic background of participants influences their willingness to pay (WTP) for ecological conservation. Questionnaires were distributed to visitors in the Sinhua Forest Park in Tainan, Taiwan, and the payment card format of the contingent valuation method was employed to evaluate the ecological conservation value. The results showed that the visitors had an annual WTP of 22.01 USD per person. However, when samples with protest responses were excluded, the WTP rose to 24.58 USD. By considering the total number of visitors of a year, the total ecological conservation price was 1,426,964.14 USD/year and reached 1,593,257.31 USD/year after excluding the protest samples. This study also analyzed participants’ within-variable socioeconomic background (e.g., sex and education) and discovered that male participants who are aged 60 years or older, with an education level of senior/vocational high school, and those who visited green spaces 2–3 times per week presented a high WTP score on average. A Tobit regression model was employed for examination, and the results indicated that participants’ education and frequency of visiting green spaces significantly influenced their WTP for the ecological conservation of the Sinhua Forest Park. |
| 發表成果與本中心研究主題之相關性 | 符合研究主題：生態農業。 農業包括農林漁牧，研究生態價值相當重要，如何建構都市林場之生態價值評估方式與實證分析，為目前國際相當關注之議題。 |
