The relationship between willingness to pay of a green space where development is assumed, and accessibility and visibility from surrounding houses

This paper was conducted to evaluate the residents' conservation awareness of a terrace slope forest by using amount of Willingness To Pay (WTP). This green space is an important landmark for this area, but it has a development possibility to become solar panels. The assessment of these green spaces are insufficient in previous research. Influences of different residential communities, and visibility and accessibility of green spaces are mainly discussed in the previous research. We used the Generalized Linear Models by results of WTP of the Contingent Valuation Method and each residents attribute variables (e.g. different residential communities and land ownership, and visibility of green space). It clarified that the interest for forest utilization and conservation, and accessibility and visibility from their home strongly influences to increase WTP compared with differences of residential communities and land ownership of this green space. It also clarified that the terrace slope forests are important not only for owners and users of this forest but also residents who can use and see the forest.