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A Choice Modelling Approach for Assessment of Use and Quasi-Option Values in Urban Planning for Areas of Environmental Interest

Strazzera, Elisabetta; Cherchi, Elisabetta; Ferrini, Silvia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

This study adopts a discrete choice modelling methodology to evaluate individuals’ preferences over planning alternatives for an urban site of environmental interest. Since such projects involve some uncertainty and irreversibility, a special attention is devoted to the estimation of the...

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Repeated Cheap-Talk Games of Common Interest between a Decision-Maker and an Expert of Unknown Statistical Bias

Valsecchi, Irene - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Two agents are engaged in a joint activity that yields a common perperiod payoff at two rounds of play. The expert announces the probability that the current state of the world is low, instead of high, at each stage. Having received the report of the expert, the decision-maker takes action at...

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Experts and Non-experts

Valsecchi, Irene - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

The paper is concerned with the interaction between two agents: an expert, announcing his probability that a particular state of the world will occur, and a non-expert decision-maker, who takes action according to his posterior beliefs. The decision-maker considers the expert an experiment of...

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The Conservation versus Production Trade-off: Does Livestock Intensification Increase Deforestation? The Case of the Brazilian Amazon

Vale, Petterson Molina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow frontier, speculative behaviour and boom-bust all share the prediction that livestock production will remain largely extensive. Yet between 1996 and 2006 productivity of cattle...

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Using Surveys to Compare the Public’s and Decisionmakers’ Preferences for Urban Regeneration: The Venice Arsenale

Alberini, Anna; Longo, Alberto; Riganti, Patrizia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

In this paper, we illustrate how surveys can be used to elicit the preferences of the public and of policymakers and city officials for regeneration projects at urban sites. Our methodology uses rating exercises, coupled with conjoint-choice stated preferences for the general public and with...

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Climate Change Assessment and Agriculture in General Equilibrium Models: Alternative Modeling Strategies

Palatnik, Ruslana Rachel; Roson, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

Agricultural sectors play a key role in the economics of climate change. Land as an input to agricultural production is one of the most important links between economy and the biosphere, representing a direct projection of human action on the natural environment. Agricultural management...

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The Preferences of Trieste Inhabitants for the Re-use of the Old Port: A Conjoint Choice Experiment

Massiani, Jérôme; Rosato, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

In many developed countries, abandoned (derelict or underused) industrial areas often occupy important parts of the cities. This raises issues about the possibilities of reusing these areas as well as on the conservation of industrial heritage they often entail. Conjoint Analysis (CA) can shed...

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Spatial Policies and Land Use Patterns: Optimal and Market Allocations

Kyriakopoulou, Efthymia; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We study the optimal and equilibrium distribution of industrial and residential land in a given region. The trade-off between the agglomeration and dispersion forces, in the form of pollution from stationary forces, environmental policy, production externalities, and commuting costs, determines...

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What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions

Stavins, Robert N.; Lubowski, Ruben N.; Plantinga, Andrew J. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global climate change, wildlife, and other policy issues. We use an econometric model to identify factors driving land-use change in the United States between 1982 and 1997. We...

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Modeling Linkages Between Climate Policy and Land Use: An Overview

Werf, Edwin van der; Peterson, Sonja - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost …-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economy …-climate models. This paper gives an overview and assessment of existing approaches to include land use, land-use change, and forestry …

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