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The Economic Value of Wetlands as Storm Buffers
Boutwell, Luke; Westra, John - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015
damages by using wetlands as storm buffers. The physical science literature shows that wetlands do provide situational … protection from storm surge. However, little economic analysis has explored the effect of wetlands on economic losses. This …-economic conditions and storm intensity allows the estimation of the value of wetlands for their protective ecosystem services under …
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Spatial Effects in Willingness to Pay for Avoiding Nuclear Risks
Schneider, Yves; Zweifel, Peter - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 149 (2013) III, pp. 357-379
How to deal with the risks associated with nuclear energy is a major policy issue. This paper investigates the effect of an individual's distance from nuclear power plants on its willingness to pay for increased insurance coverage against nuclear accidents (MWPC) as well as on willingness to pay...
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Willingness to pay for unfamiliar public goods: Preserving cold-water coral in Norway
Aanesen, Margrethe; Armstrong, Claire; Czajkowski, Mikołaj - In: Ecological Economics 112 (2015) C, pp. 53-67
The world's largest concentration of cold-water coral (CWC) is found off the Norwegian coast. Most CWC discoveries are recent, posing new challenges for Norwegian coastal and fishery authorities regarding the management of deep-sea resources. Scientific knowledge of CWC is limited, and many...
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Spatial heterogeneity of willingness to pay for forest management
Czajkowski, Mikolaj; Budzinski, Wiktor; Campbell, Danny; … - Environmental Economics Research Group, Department of … - 2015
The paper investigates spatial heterogeneity of the public’s preferences for the implementation of a new country-wide forest management and protection program in Poland. Spatial econometric methods and high resolution geographical information system (GIS) data related to forest characteristics...
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Willingness to pay for physician services: Comparing estimates from a discrete choice experiment and contingent valuation
Danyliv, Andriy; Pavlova, Milena; Gryga, Irena; Groot, Wim - In: Society and Economy 34 (2012) June, pp. 339-357
a household survey in Ukraine that includes 303 respondents and is taken to be representative of the Ukrainian …
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Eco-driving? A discrete choice experiment on valuation of car attributes
Högberg, Martina - Transportekonomi, Väg- och Transportforskninginstitut (VTI) - 2007
To elicit the value that car consumers place upon environmental concerns when purchasing a car, a certain type of Discrete Choice Modelling called Choice Experiment was used. The Choice Experiment includes the four car attributes safety, carbon dioxide emissions, acceleration and annual cost....
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The Willingness to Pay to Reduce School Bullying
Svensson, Mikael; Persson, Mattias - Handelshögskolan, Karlstads Universitet - 2012
We use a discrete choice experiment conducted in Sweden to elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce school bullying. The estimations indicate a mean marginal WTP of 5.95 to 8.48 Swedish kronor (€0.66 to €0.95), which implies that the aggregate WTP for each reduced statistical victim of...
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Valuing biodiversity enhancement in New Zealand's planted forests: Socioeconomic and spatial determinants of willingness-to-pay
Yao, Richard T.; Scarpa, Riccardo; Turner, James A.; … - In: Ecological Economics 98 (2014) C, pp. 90-101
Planted forests are increasingly recognised for the provision of habitats for species threatened with extinction. Despite this development, a limited number of empirical studies have been undertaken to estimate the economic value of this ecosystem service. New Zealand's planted forests provide...
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Consumer preferences for household water treatment products in Andhra Pradesh, India
Poulos, Christine; Yang, Jui-Chen; Patil, Sumeet R.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 4, pp. 738-746
in water supply infrastructure and the unhygienic handling of water after collection, household water treatment and … use remain low. An understanding of household preferences for HWTS products can be used to create demand through effective …
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Is Presentation Everything? Using Visual Presentation of Attributes in Discrete Choice Experiments to Measure the Relative Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Beef Attributes
Umberger, Wendy J.; Mueller, Simone C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
A unique discrete choice experiment (DCE) is used to estimate the relative importance of quality attributes to Australian beef consumers. In the DCE, consumers choose their preferred beef steaks from options varying in a large number of intrinsic (marbling and fat trim) and extrinsic/credence...
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