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The Economics of Developing a Long-Distance Walking Track in North Queensland

Cook, Averil - 2005

-distance walking track in the tropical rainforest environment could be a valuable recreation asset for the region, and a major tourism … market model. In this thesis, an annual market model is estimated for the recreation service which provides a short …-term efficient price. A long-distance walking track is an investment in recreation infrastructure the benefits of which are …

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Alternative treatments of the cost of time in recreational demand models: an application to whitewater kayaking in Ireland

Hynes, Stephen; Hanley, Nick; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

The measurement of travel costs in recreational demand modeling has been a contentious issue for many decades. This article explores the use of a number of alternative methods of incorporating time costs in the travel cost modeling process. Travel cost values where the opportunity cost of time...

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ANALIZING WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IMPACTS USING A MULTINOMIAL LOGIT LAND USE MODEL

Fezzi, Carlo; Bateman, Ian J.; Day, Brett H.; Posen, … - 2008

We develop a two-stage, multinomial logit model of UK land use to investigate the impact of policychanges upon agriculture. The model utilizes a large panel database covering the entirety of Englandand Wales for 14 years between 1969 and 2004 integrated with the economic and physicalenvironment...

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Reducing Nutrient Losses in Europe and Implications for Farming - In the Light of the Water Framework Directive

Jacobsen, Brian H.; Abildtrup, Jens; Orum, Jens Erik - 2005

An analysis for the implementation of the Nitrate Directive in the EU indicates that probably only three of 15 countries have implemented the directive satisfactorily. These countries are Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Austria, however other countries are in the process of getting their...

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REGIONAL ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN THE EMSLAND, NORTH GERMANY

Bergmann, Holger; Thomson, Kenneth J. - 2009

The European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) has “the purpose to protect and preserve water resources across the European Union to ensure future sustainable use” but is likely to add to agricultural land losses, e.g. to infrastructure, industrial estates and housing. While the...

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DEA APPLICATION TO EVALUATE THE TECHNICAL AND ECOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY OF WATER PRICING POLICIES

Giannoccaro, Giacomo; Prosperi, Maurizio; Zanni, G. - 2008

With the enforcement of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD), policy makers arerequired to pursue the improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agriculturalsector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency ofwater...

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Ökonomische Analyse naturwissenschaftlicher und politischer Grenzwertsetzung

Kopf, Petra - 2003

Durch die Festsetzung von Umweltqualitätsgrenzwerten werden vorgegebene Umweltqualitäts- oder Schutzziele operationalisiert. Im Operationalisierungsprozess (dem Grenzwertsetzungsprozess) sind jedoch Fehlentscheidungen aufgrund von Unsicherheiten in der Bewertung gegebener...

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EU Water Policy: Pollution source control by water companies in England and Wales

Spiller, Marc - 2010

Water management is undergoing a transformation towards integration, source controland ecological thinking. In the EU, the Water Framework Directive can be consideredas a driver towards this new approach to water management. Innovations are deemednecessary to deliver this ideal of water...

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The Origin, Development And Structure Of Demand For Plant Genetic Resources. The Impact Of The In Trust Agreements To The CGIAR Collections Availability

Caracciolo, Francesco; Gotor, Elisabetta; Holloway, Garth J. - 2008

The objective of this paper is to explore how the demand of germplasm held by CGIAR genebanks changed over time in order to assess the possible influence of the 1994 In Trust Agreements on germplasm demand. The proposed theoretic model motivates the realistic hypothesis that the consequences of...

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How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters: Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter H.; Merlo, Valeria - 2008

Most existing empirical evidence on the impact of profit taxationon multinational firm activity is based on cross-country data. One majordrawback of such data is that countries differ not only with regardto taxes but along other dimensions which might be hard to captureby means of observable...

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