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How beliefs influence prevention expenditure
Schumacher, Ingmar - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2013
We study how beliefs affect individuals' willingness to undertake prevention expenditure through a two-type, N-person public good game and test several results empirically. We show analytically that pessimistic agents will invest more in prevention expenditure than optimists. We should how...
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Environmental fiscal reform and willingness to pay for the environment: an empirical analysis on European micro data
Ercolano, Salvatore; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Romano, Oriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper empirically investigates the determinants of willingness to pay (WTP) for the environment, employing micro … sample. Our results show that WTP for the environment is lower in countries where an Environmental Fiscal Reform has been … fiscal reform does not affect positively the marginal willingness to pay for the environment. …
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THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF FOREST RESOURCES WITH THE NATIONAL ECONOMY AND THE NECESSITY TO ENSURE THEIR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PLATON, Ion - In: ECONOMY AND SOCIOLOGY: Theoretical and Scientifical Journal (2013) 3, pp. 175-179
environment and could help the economists find the best strategies for economic development. This goal of this article is to …
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Agriculture, Environmental Services and Agro-Tourism in the Dominican Republic
Catalino, Alejandro Herrera; Lizardo, Magdalena - In: The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development … 1 (2004) 1, pp. 87-116
This paper analyzes the links between agriculture and tourism. A contingent valuation study assesses tourist’s willingness to pay (WTP) for agro-tourism and agriculture’s positive environmental services and related positive externalities. The paper analyzes factors influencing tourist...
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The contingent valuation and the travel cost methods applied to Mucubají Lake area
Sánchez, José Miguel - In: Economía 33 (2008) 26, pp. 119-150
Natural Resources and Environmental Services act as characterized public goods because they are sources of direct utility without any associated market with related prices. For instance, the recreational services of the natural parks are guaranteed to the visitors by an entrance payment ticket....
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Impact of the Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of Human Activity on the Ecosystem: Demonstration through the Use of Ecological Footprint Approach
Makram, GAALICHE - In: European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (2012) 02
This article aims to show that the impact of human activities on the ecosystem, measured by the Ecological Footprint, depends on the   qualitative and quantitative aspects of the population. Indeed, we confirmed our hypothesis by an empirical analysis on Tunisia, where it was revealed that the...
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Tourism specialization and environmental sustainability in a dynamic economy
Cerina, F. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2006
when tourist services are supplied to foreign tourists who are crowding-averse and care for the environment. We analyse the … relaxing the dynamic constraint on the environment, yields a higher steady-state utility when the externality effects and …
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El Ecoturismo como Estrategia de Desarrollo Sostenible: Un Análisis basado en la Teoría Económica
Ilizaliturri, Hernández; Amalia, Alma - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2007) 5, pp. 209-225
other capitalist system consequences. Eco-turism has revealed itself as a a world strategy for protecting environment and …
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Examining the perceptions and effects of survey consequentiality across population subgroups
Morgan, Owen Ashton; Huth, William L.; Hindsley, Paul - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 9 (2018) 2, pp. 305-322
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Looking at payments for ecosystems services in the Philippines
Domingo, Sonny N.; Manejar, Arvie Joy A.; Ocbina, John … - 2022
The payment for ecosystem services (PES) emerges as part of an arsenal of tools for innovative domestic financing for otherwise absent markets relating to natural resource management. Its traditional framework aspects of conditionality, voluntary transaction, at least one buyer and seller, and...
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