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Destination Choice Models for Rock Climbing in the Northeast Alps: A Latent-Class Approach Based on Intensity of Participation

Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

Practitioners of outdoor sports, such as rock-climbers, are likely to exhibit preference heterogeneity that depends on the ‘keenness’ with which such sports are practiced. Such an intuition is born out in at least one study using latent class discrete choice modelling (Provencher et al....

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Recreational, Cultural and Aesthetic Services from Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Portela, Rosimeiry; Rao, Nalini; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The role of economic analysis in guiding the sustainable development of estuarine and coastal ecosystems is investigated based on a comprehensive review of the literature on the valuation of the recreation, cultural and aesthetic services. The implications of the findings for the sustainable...

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Comparing Individual-Specific Benefit Estimates for Public Goods: Finite Versus Continuous Mixing in Logit Models

Scarpa, Riccardo; Willis, Kenneth G.; Acutt, Melinda - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

Multi-attribute stated preference data, derived through choice experiments, is used to investigate the consequence of a finite number of preference groups in a sample of Yorkshire Water residential customers on the conditional distributions of willingness to pay in the sample. The research...

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Valuing the Cultural Monuments of Armenia: Bayesian Updating of Prior Beliefs in Contingent Valuation

Alberini, Anna; Longo, Alberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

We use contingent valuation to place a value on the conservation of built cultural heritage sites in Armenia. When we present the hypothetical scenario in the questionnaire we spell out what would happen to the monuments in the absence of the government conservation program. We posit that...

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Mapping of Forest Biodiversity Values: A Plural Perspective

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Ojea, Elena; Loureiro, Maria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is built on a conceptual framework that links biodiversity to the services ecosystems provide to society. Based on this framework, we first compile market and non-market forest valuation studies and, secondly, explore the potential of an econometric modeling...

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Are Preferences for Environmental Quality Sensitive to Financial Funding Schemes? Evidence from a Marine Restoration Programme in the Black Sea

Remoundou, Kyriaki; Adaman, Fikret; Koundouri, Phoebe; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper uses a non-market valuation study to elicit consumers’ preferences for a marine restoration programme in the Black Sea aiming to reduce the level of public health risk from bathing and improve water quality and the overall level of marine biodiversity. In this context, we administer...

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The Value of Cultural Heritage Sites in Armenia: Evidence from a Travel Cost Method Study

Alberini, Anna; Longo, Alberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper applies the travel cost method to visits to cultural sites in Armenia by domestic visitors. Respondents intercepted at four cultural monuments provided information on their visitation patterns, experience at the site, perception of the state of conservation of the monuments, and...

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Valuing the Recreational Benefits From the Creation of Nature Reserves in Irish Forests

Scarpa, Riccardo; Chilton, Susan M.; Hutchinson, W. George - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

Data from a large-scale contingent valuation study are used to investigate the effects of forest attributes on willingness to pay for forest recreation in Ireland. In particular, the presence of a nature reserve in the forest is found to significantly increase the visitors' willingness to pay. A...

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Multivariate and Multicriteria Evaluation of Labour Market Situation

Sedenkova, Monika; Horak, Jiri - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Nowadays the analysts of labour markets have a lot of different data and indicators that can be used for the evaluation of the labour market and monitor its development. But such a great number of monitoring determinants can create problems both with the evaluation and with the description of...

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Urban Watershed Services For Improved Ecosystem Management and Risk Reduction, Assessment Methods and Policy Instruments: State of the Art

Depietri, Yaella; Guadagno, Lorenzo; Breil, Margaretha - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Under scenarios of increasing unplanned urban expansion, environmental degradation and hazard exposure, the … environmental solutions. Basing our analysis on the concept of ecosystem services, we suggest that urban areas would benefit from a … help strengthen the supply of essential environmental services, while reducing the vulnerability of its population and …

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