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Millions of people participate in outdoor recreation activities in New Zealand every year. Economic recreation studies in the country concentrate mostly on market values. Market values only present part of the outdoor recreation benefit; while non-market values represent the other part. In this...
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During December 2007 and January 2008, telephone surveys were used to randomly sample Waikato, New Zealand residents. The purpose of the surveys was to determine whether respondents valued native bird conservation programmes in their area. We elicited the contingent valuation approach to...
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internal migration changes, with smaller but still significant effects on international migration and mortality rates. …
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different factors: fertility, mortality and migration. A fourth factor that is often related, momentum, is analysed in a … increase (births and deaths) and migration, both domestic and international. We first present a review of population flows, and … then disaggregate these into their components; natural increase and net migration, so as to provide a demographic …
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instability of migration as a component of population change. Unlike the standard cohort-component methodology, in which net … migration levels are projected, the key parameters of our stochastic methodology are age-gender-area specific net migration … by net migration. Generally, the identified and modelled uncertainty makes the traditional ‘mid range’ scenario of sub …
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population size and age structure, sub-national population size and change, international migration, ethnicity, families and …
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clearly linked with net inward migration. There is also evidence of significantly positive spatial autocorrelation in the …
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In this paper we investigate consumer preferences for various environmentally-friendly production systems for carrots. We use discrete-choice multi-attribute stated-preference data to explore the effect of the collective reputation of growers from an Alpine valley with an established reputation...
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Over the last 20 years, costs for wildfire initial attack in the U.S. have increased significantly. The increased cost relates to wildfire suppression practices as well as the growing number of wildland urban interface (WUI) homes. Requiring WUI residents to pay an annual tax for their wildfire...
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We review the practice of experimental design in the environmental economics literature concerned with choice experiments. We then contrast this with advances in the field of experimental design and present a comparison of statistical efficiency across four different experimental designs...
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