Forests improve qualities and values of local areas in Denmark |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;2. Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark;3. Institute of Local Government Studies Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark;1. Université de Sousse, faculté de médecine de Sousse, laboratoire de Biochimie, UR « biologie moléculaire des leucémies et lymphomes », avenue Mohamed Karoui, 4000 Sousse, Tunisia;2. Institut Paoli-Calmettes, département d’oncologie génétique, de prévention et dépistage, 232, boulevard de Sainte-Marguerite, 13009 Marseille, France;3. Service d’hématologie clinique, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisia;4. Institut Paoli-Calmettes, centre de lutte contre le cancer, département d’anticipation et de suivi du cancer, 232, boulevard de Sainte-Marguerite, 13009 Marseille, France;5. Centre de lutte contre le cancer, centre Antoine-Lacassagne, service d’oncologie génétique, 33, avenue de Valombrose, 06100 Nice, France;6. Centre hospitalier Georges-Renon, service oncogénétique pour la consultation oncogénétique régionale Poitou-Charentes, 79021 Niort, France;7. Institut Sainte-Catherine, 250, chemin de Baigne-Pieds, 84918 Avignon cedex 9, France;8. Centre Léon-Bérard, unité de génétique épidémiologique, 28, prom. Léa-et-Napoléon-Bullukian, 69008 Lyon, France;9. Centre Eugène-Marquis, avenue de la Bataille-Flandres-Dunkerque, 35000 Rennes, France;10. Hôpital de la Timone, département de génétique, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385 Marseille, France;11. CHU de Dijon, hôpital d’Enfants, 14, rue Paul-Gaffarel, 21079 Dijon, France;1. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria;2. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. VTI Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;4. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;1. Department of Economics, George Washington University, 2115 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052, United States;2. Department of Economics and Business, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX 78627, United States;3. Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901, United States;1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan;2. Department of Laboratory Testing, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan;3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Japan;1. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;2. University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark;3. Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany;1. Universität Hohenheim, Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture (430a), 70593 Stuttgart, Germany;2. Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), 15374 Müncheberg, Germany;3. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA SAD), 16 Rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris, France;4. The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, United Kingdom;5. University of Agriculture in Krakow, Institute of Economic and Social Sciences, 31120 Kraków, Poland;6. University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), (CETRAD), 5000 801, Vila Real Portugal |
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| Abstract: | Afforestation can create multiple societal benefits. One fifth of the Danish municipalities plans to afforest in the next 5 years, amongst other reasons to attract new inhabitants. The attractiveness and values of afforested areas have been investigated in two independent Danish studies. In the first study qualitative and quantitative surveys in two municipalities indicated that forests improved quality of life of the respondents. A short distance from the residence to nearest forest usually resulted in a higher frequency of forest visits and a more positive view on the nature qualities of the local area in general, compared to respondents living further from forests. Proximity to nature, including forests, was furthermore mentioned as the most important reason for choice of their present home by 17% of the respondents. These results are supported by the second study in which house prices are used to elicit the residents' valuation of forested housing areas. By using the hedonic price method house owners' willingness to pay for proximity to forests was found to be significant and positive, and in most circumstances the aggregated value is expected to exceed the cost of afforestation. |
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