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Estimating Tourist Externalities on Residents: A Choice Modeling Approach to the Case of Rimini
Figini, Paolo; Castellani, Massimiliano; Vici, Laura - 2007
During their holidays, tourists produce direct and indirect effects on local residents, which can either be positive or negative. In this paper we investigate how residents of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside resort hosting more than ten million national and foreign overnight stays every year,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312320
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A General Equilibrium Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Tourism
Bigano, Andrea; Berrittella, Maria; Roson, Roberto; … - 2004
This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE … subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of climate change. We portray the impact of climate change on tourism by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325003
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Uncovering the Macrostructure of Tourists’ Preferences. A Choice Experiment Analysis of Tourism Demand to Sardinia
Brau, Rinaldo; Cao, Davide - 2006
sustainable tourism policies. Multinomial logit estimations reveal the strong negative effects resulting from the congestion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312582
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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012
This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294262
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Environmental security and its implications for China's foreign relations
Mochizuki, Junko; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population size, geographical scale, economic power and military presence, China is poised to play a larger political role in the twenty-first century, and is thus perceived by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279462
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Programs, Prices and Policies Towards Energy Conservation and Environmental Quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398392
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Policies and Practices of Low Carbon City Development in China
Wang, Can; Lin, Jie; Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to most CO2 emissions. In particular, given unprecedented urbanization, cities will play an even greater role in shaping energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398442
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REDD and international organizations
Giannini, Valentina - 2010
Climate change mitigation can be achieved, according to many, by means of Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Tropics (REDD). Within the climate change policy debate we thus find discussions on how to reduce GHG emissions by designing appropriate REDD programmes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286073
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The Impact of Climate Change on Domestic and International Tourism: A Simulation Study
Bigano, Andrea; Hamilton, Jacqueline M.; Tol, Richard S.J. - 2006
We use an updated and extended version of the Hamburg Tourism Model to simulate the effect of development and climate … change on tourism. Model extensions are the explicit modelling of domestic tourism and the inclusion of tourist expenditures …. We also use the model to examine the impact of sea level rise on tourism demand. Climate change would shift patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312545
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Investment in Tourism Market: A Dynamic Model of Differentiated Oligopoly
Cellini, Roberto; Candela, Guido - 2004
We present a theoretical model in tourism economics, assuming that the market for tourism is an oligopoly with … capacity that can be interpreted as the stock of physical, natural or cultural resources. Tourism flows yield current revenues … questions, like the choice between mass- vs. elite-tourism development strategies; the effect of the number of competing …
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