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Climate and the destination choice of German tourists

Hamilton, Jacqueline M. - 2004

. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An … study. Data on the climate, beach length and indicators of cultural, natural resource and economic attractiveness of the … destination countries are used in the regression analysis. Optimal climate values were calculated and a climate index was used to …

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The role of landscape amenities in regional development : a survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies

Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007

Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local...

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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods

Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Annette - 2007

This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...

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An analysis of the Swiss vote on the use of genetically modified crops

Schläpfer, Felix - 2007

In November 2005, 55.7 percent of 2 million Swiss voters approved a 5-year moratorium (ban) on the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions were determined by (i) socioeconomic characteristics, (ii)...

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What is the value of hazardous weather forecasts? : evidence from a survey of backcountry skiers

Alberini, Anna; Rheinberger, Christoph M.; Leiter, Andrea M. - 2010

What is the value of hazardous weather warnings? To answer this question, we focus on the avalanche bulletin for Switzerland issued by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF). We take a survey-based, non-market valuation approach to estimating the value of hypothetical...

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Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services : methodology and monetary estimates

Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, C. M.; Ding, H.; Markandya, A.; … - 2009

By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...

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A search model for joint implementation

Bella, Giovanni - 2009

The aim of this paper is to present a search model in the field of environmental economics, where so-called clean and dirty producers enter the trading market, both looking for a partner with whom to exchange the goods they are endowed with. The model derived in this paper is rather simple....

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Recreational, cultural and aesthetic services from estuarine and coastal ecosystems

Ghermandi, Andrea; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Portela, Rosimeiry - 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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Identifying the link between coastal tourism and marine ecosystems in the Baltic, North Sea, and Mediterranean countries

Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Bosello, Francesco - 2015

This paper examines the impact of marine ecosystem quality on inbound coastal tourism in the Baltic, North Sea, and Mediterranean countries. Given extensive empirical findings in ecological science, we use marine protected areas (MPAs) and the fraction of species that are shed in each country's...

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Destination image built by the cinema : the case of "Basilicata Coast to Coast"

Bencivenga, Angelo; Chiarullo, Livio; Colangelo, Delio; … - 2012

Film tourism, meaning the phenomenon that is born of the desire to visit film locations, has been the object of increasing attention in recent years. This document presents the results of a field research conducted with the aim of analysing the effects of the film "Basilicata Coast to Coast", by...

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