background and objective : to resource allocating at national levels as results of productivity, cost calculation helps to determine the size of the problem and revealed cost benefits of injury prevention and it can also ensure the better resource using and cost benefit assessment. this study was conducted to determine the method of calculating road traffic injuries cost. materials and methods:...

abstract researches of preservation valuation of natural resources and environment were done in order to create necessary awareness for making optimal decisions in the field of the ways of economic management of these resources and helping to establish sustainable regional development strategy. in this study, preservation value of lilium ledebourii estimated using single bounded dichotomous cho...

conclusions willingness to pay can be affected by experiencing an accident, the distance of the daily trip, and helmet use. the cost of traffic injuries among motorcyclists shows that this rate is much higher than the global average. thus, expenditure should be made on effective initiatives such as the safety of motorcyclists. results the mean wtp was 888,110 irr (iranian rial) among motorcycli...

Willingness to pay is a term used in economics, which can be defined as the maximum amount a person would be prepared to pay, sacrifice or exchange in order to receive goods or services or to avoid something that is undesired. It can be used in medicine as a method for assessing the value of health benefits in a cost-benefit analysis. One indication of the importance of this concept is the prog...

the proposition that natural areas need protection from the destructive actions of people iswidely accepted. this paper examines iran’s e-society attitudes and capital towards biodiversity conservationand evaluates economically iran’s national parks (nps). 2,121 respondents answered an online questionnaire conducted in summer 2012. the majority of respondents had visited one of iran’s nps. almo...

Rapid urbanization and severe air quality deterioration in Pakistan have increased citizens’s concern towards air pollution. This study, conducted in November, 2016, aimed to develop relationship between degraded air quality and resident’s willingness to pay for improved air quality in city of Lahore, Pakistan through contingent valuation method to quantify an individual’s willingness to pay fo...

agricultural extension services have been playing a central role in transformation process of agricultural sector in nigeria but there are challenges which affect the quality of service delivery especially increasing cost of services and poor funding and therefore, promoting emergence of new extension strategies offered by private sector . the study investigated the perception of maize crop far...

background: one of the economic evaluation techniques involves calculation of willingness to pay (wtp) for a service to find out the value of that service from the clients’ perspective. this study estimated wtp for both breast cancer and osteoporosis screening and comparatively examined the contributing factors. in fact, the comparisons served to provide an exact analysis of individual attitude...

although there is a tendency worldwide towards alternative methods in effectively managing weeds, use of herbicides to control weeds in conventional agriculture is still inevitable. with regard to externalities (through unsystematic use of herbicides) imposed upon environment, in the present paper it has been tried to study the willingness to pay of wheat farmers to plan for reducing the side e...