Thesis Abstract


Economic valuation of use on Non Marketable Forest Products  in Protected Area of Sultan Adam Great Forest Park, South Kalimantan,
by MUNANDAR 1) Prof. H.UDIANSYAH, Ph.D 2),  H M. ZUBAIDI.3), DANIEL ITTA,3)
ABSTRACT
            Pressure against  forests become increasingly severe during three decades in Indonesia. Increasing  of food demand, investment in economic development framework require more wider   of land. The major opinion which assume that value of  forest would more higher just if it was changed to agriculture or land mines, in other word forests often undervalued. Consequently, forest always become main target  of function conversion to non-forestry activities. People realizing the value of forests when it's increasingly scarce.   The research identified  potential, kinds of  non marketable forest  products, and calculating  the economic value of non marketable forest products in Sultan Adam Grand Forest Park. Identifying the species  was conducted on  the sample of 100 hectares  width  by creating line plot sampling of width 20 meters  and 1000 meters length. Data  were analyzed to explain types of species, frequency, relative frequency, density and relative density. Calculating   the value of non marketable forest products was done  by  making Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) survey. Amount of Willingness to Pay (WTP) directly ask to the respondents using questionnaire. Respondents were 243 peoples in five villages; Belangian, Artain, Paau, Kalaan and Rantaubujur. The result of research, non marketable flora consist of  7 species of used as food ingredients, 2 types species of medicinal and tonic, a species potent to cosmetics substitution, one type of pest poison, one of handy craft. There are 8 species of birds among of them are endangered species like hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) and haruai or Kalimantan Peacock ( Argusius argus).The Large mammals such as deer (Cervus unicolor), antelop (Muntiacus muntjak) and wild boar (Sus srofa) still found in it’s footprints and be informed by local people Willingness to Pay of locally perspective was Rp.494,483,164.61 per year or Rp. 7,271.81 per hectare per year as preferences to non marketable forest products they used.
Keywords: Non Marketable, Valuation, WTP, Sultan Adam Grand Forest Park

1)       Graduate Student at The Lambung Mangkurat University
2)       Professor at Faculty of Forestry The Lambung Mangkurat University
3)       Lecturers at Faculty of Forestry The Lambung Mangkurat University

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Logs of plantation woods against global economic crisis

SAATNYA MASYARAKAT SEKITAR HUTAN BERPERAN

CATATAN YANG TERSERAK