People’s Avoidance of Neighboring Agricultural Urban Green Infrastructure: Evidence from a Choice Experiment
Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Academic Editor: Andrea Pérez
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6930; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126930
Received: 25 May 2021 / Revised: 18 June 2021 / Accepted: 18 June 2021 / Published: 20 June 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-market Valuation of Urban Green Space)
This study evaluates people’s preferences regarding the proximity of their residence to agricultural urban green infrastructure (UGI), such as agricultural land and satoyama, and discusses the availability of these types of land as UGI. UGI is vital for reducing the negative environmental impacts of urban areas, as these impacts are too large to ignore. In this study, we conducted an online survey and a choice experiment to investigate people’s perceptions regarding the proximity of their residence to agricultural UGI (AUGI). The respondents of the choice experiment were 802 inhabitants of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, which has rich agricultural resources. To examine explicitly the spatial autocorrelation of people’s preferences, in this study, we used the spatial econometrics method. The main empirical findings are that people prefer agricultural land far away from their residence—more than 1000 m, not within 1000 m—which reflects the not-in-my-backyard phenomenon. Meanwhile, people’s preferences regarding proximity to satoyama are complicated and their preferences are positively spatially autocorrelated. The results indicate that policymakers and urban planners should manage and provide AUGI far away from residential areas; otherwise, they must address people’s avoidance of neighboring AUGI.
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Keywords:
urban green infrastructure; agricultural UGI; willingness to pay; choice experiment; proximity; spatial autocorrelation
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