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ArticleThe effects of socio-economic characteristics on willingness to pay for conservation of community forest, Myanmar
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.In poor and developing countries, rural people rely on the forest resources for their livelihood. Thus, their participation in forest management activities and their demographic characteristics are vital for achieving sustainable development objectives, particularly within the context of co-management of forest resources. This study was carried out to investigate the influence of socio-demographic characteristics on willingness to pay (WTP) for conservation of forest and to assess the benefits contributes by community forestry to members of forest user group. It was a case study of Maing-thauk community forest (MTCF), which was selected based on the following criteria: official certification, > 10 years’ forest management experience, with one forest consisting of different users and watershed conservation practices. Using the semi-structured questionnaire, responses on socio-demographic, willingness and expectation of forest management for long term questions were obtained from randomly selected households (i.e., 35% of the total households who are involved in the management of MTCF). The distance from forest and purposes of extraction of forest products and services significantly influence on WTP for conservation of forest. The significant influence of Ethnicity, gender and education level of forest users varied depending on the onetime payment and long-term payment. The results of this study provide important information to promote sustainable forest management with people participation reducing poverty and conflicts between forest users and authorized organizations in management of forest area and resources. Keywords: community forestry, willingness to pay, socio-demographic characteristics, people participation, Myanmar ID: 3623495 -
DocumentEffects of forest experience activities on the change of happiness and nature-friendly attitudes on young children
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Nowadays, environmental damage has reached a serious state due to urbanization and industrialization, and with rapid economic growth based on capitalism, infants are gradually moving away from nature and living in artificial structures. They have been suffering from physical, mental stress and psychological disabilities since infancy due to various problems such as parents' high intellectual desire, changes in family members, and collapse of family. The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological effects of the forest experience activities of 10 sessions (one time a week/2 hours) for young children. Forty infants (6 to 7 years old) participated in the forest experience activities (10 sessions, once a week/2 hours, a total of 10 weeks) held at the National Center for Forest Education, Daejeon (Korea). To examine the psychological effects before and after the participation, the happiness (parent relationships, peer relationships, cognition and achievement, immersion, spirituality, emotion, health, life satisfaction) and nature-friendly attitudes of the children (interest and affection for animals and plants, respect for life, preference for the natural environment, protection of nature) were measured. As a result of analyzing psychological indicators, all nine sub-factors of infant happiness improved, and overall infant happiness increased statistically significantly from 85.12 before participation to 99.91 after participation. In the case of nature-friendly attitudes, the nature protection item improved statistically significantly from 9.50 before participation to 11.42 after participation. It was confirmed that the 10 sessions forest experience activities were effective in enhancing the happiness of infants and improving the nature protection item of nature-friendly attitudes. Therefore, forest experience activities can be usefully utilized as a method of psychological health care for infants. Keywords: Human health and well-being ID: 3481876 -
DocumentThe effects of visit characteristics in urban forest on the individual life satisfaction
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Recently, the importance and effectiveness of the urban forest have been increasing with the quality of life of urban residents. Therefore, the study aims to understand how people use the forest for recreation and determine how the visit characteristics of the urban forest affect Individual Life Satisfaction (ILS). A nationwide survey (n=8,254) was conducted on the visit frequency, proximity to the forest and life satisfaction. To measure ILS, three questions (personal, relative, collective) of COMOSWB (Concise Measure of Subjective Well-being) developed by Seo et al (2011) are used. The analysis shows that people usually visit the forest within 10~30 minutes distance (31.8%) on a weekly basis (24.2%), by walk (41.4%) for exercise (41.0%) and relaxation (32.9%). As a result of the hierarchical analysis between visit characteristics and ILS with controlling demographic variables; the ‘frequency of forest visits (t=4.50**)’ and ‘proximity to the forest (t=2.764**)’ has a positive effect on ILS. In particular, ‘frequency of forest visits(β=0.056)’ has higher level of influence than that of ‘proximity to the forest (β=0.034)’ on ILS. In other words, frequent visits to forests far away from the place of residence can improve individual life satisfaction." The significance of this study is that it statistically determines that the frequency of forest visits and the proximity to the forest are important factors for ILS. Future studies should take into account the various qualitative factors of forest visitation such as vegetation, quantity and types of forest so that it will be possible to contribute to setting up a direction for urban forest development and management. Keywords: Human health and well-being ID: 3484619
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