Valoración económica de los servicios ecosistémicos culturales de recreación y belleza escénica del Parque Nacional Podocarpus, 2016

Abstract

The present titling work aims to determine the economic value of the use of recreational and scenic beauty ecosystem services of the Podocarpus National Park (PNP) located in the southeastern region of Ecuador. By applying the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) the willingness to pay (WTP) was measured and a Logit model was estimated to determine the individual disposition of payment and the variables that explain it. In order to obtain the information, a survey was applied to the visitors of the natural area during the months of July and August of 2016. The results show that they are: monthly income, travel expenses, the gender and the payment disposition expressed in dollars the determinants of DAP. Using the cumulative distribution function of a standard logistic variable, it was obtained he mean of the willingness to pay of $ 13.63 per year for each user, for the use of recreational and scenic beauty services of the PNP.