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Payment Types and Participation in Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: Stated Preferences of Landowners

Nordén, Anna - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

Because the effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs depends on landowners’ engagement, understanding the relationship between the type of payment and participation is a key issue. This paper reports on a choice experiment that quantifies landowners’ preferences for...

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Bioeconomic model of spatial fishery management in developing countries

Akpalu, Wisdom; Vondolia, Godwin K. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

Fishers in developing countries do not have the resources to acquire advanced technologies to exploit offshore fish stocks. As a result, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea requires countries to sign partnership agreements with distant water fishing nations (DWFNs) to exploit...

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Estimating the Impact of Whaling on Global Whale Watching

Kuo, Hsiao-I; Chen, Chi-Chung; McAleer, Michael - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2010

After a commercial whaling moratorium was enacted in 1986, whale watching became one of the fastest growing tourism industries worldwide. As whaling is regarded as an activity that is incompatible with whale watching, the possible resumption of commercial whaling has caused an urgent need to...

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Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of elephants

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Carlsson, Fredrik; Köhlin, Gunnar - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a burden, then they cannot be trusted to be its stewards ……ed according to their preferences over the elephant. The median WTP for the preservation of 200 elephants is ZW$260 (US$4.73) for … respondents who considered the elephant a public good while the same statistic is ZW$137 (US$2.49) for those favouring its …

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Bioeconomic Model of Community Incentives for Wildlife Management Before and After CAMPFIRE

Fischer, Carolyn; Muchapondwa, Edwin; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper formulates a bioeconomic model to analyze community incentives for wildlife management under benefit-sharing programs like the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe. Two agents influence the wildlife stock: a parks agency determines...

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Is Small Beautiful? Size Effects of Volatility Spillovers for Firm Performance and Exchange Rates in Tourism

Chang, Chia-Lin; Hsu, Hui-Kuang; McAleer, Michael - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2013

This paper examines the size effects of volatility spillovers for firm performance and exchange rates with asymmetry in the Taiwan tourism industry. The analysis is based on two conditional multivariate models, BEKK-AGARCH and VARMA-AGARCH, in the volatility specification. Daily data from 1 July...

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Statistical Modelling of Extreme Rainfall in Taiwan

Chu, Lan-Fen; McAleer, Michael; Chang, Ching-Chung - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2013

In this paper, the annual maximum daily rainfall data from 1961 to 2010 are modelled for 18 stations in Taiwan. We fit the rainfall data with stationary and non-stationary generalized extreme value distributions (GEV), and estimate their future behaviour based on the best fitting model. The...

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Statistical Modeling of Recent Changes in Extreme Rainfall in Taiwan

Chu, Lan-Fen; McAleer, Michael; Wang, Szu-Hua - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012

This paper has two primary purposes. First, we fit the annual maximum daily rainfall data for 6 rainfall stations, both with stationary and non-stationary generalized extreme value (GEV) distributions for the periods 1911-2010 and 1960-2010 in Taiwan, and detect the changes between the two...

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The Effects of Emotions on Preferences and Choices for Public Goods

Boyce, Christopher; Czajkowski, Mikolaj; Hanley, Nick; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2015

This paper tests whether changes in 'incidental emotions' lead to changes in economic choices. Incidental emotions are experienced at the time of an economic decision but are not part of the payoff from a particular choice. As such, the standard economic model predicts that incidental emotions...

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A Summary of Ecosystem Service Economic Valuation Methods and Recommendations for Future Studies

Kaval, Pamela - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2010

This short working paper summarizes ecosystem service economic valuation methods. The paper begins with an introduction to ecosystem services, and then describes the various methods that can be used to value them. An extensive literature review was carried out, illustrating those ecosystem...

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