This study adopts a choice modelling framework to disentangle individual preferences for rural landscape attributes based on the viewing of photographs of the Irish countryside. Using ordered logit and standard panel and pooled regression models, societal preferences are quantified for rural...

1 Introduction -- 2 The Spatial Policy Context of Economic, Agricultural and Environmental Change in Rural Ireland -- 3 A Review of Microsimulation for Policy Analysis -- 4 The SMILE Model: Construction and Calibration -- 5 Validation Issues and the Spatial Pattern of Household Income -- 6 Farm...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Note on Contributors -- Foreword by Sir Terry Farrell -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Book Endorsements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Foresight and Futures Studies in Construction and Development -- 1.1...