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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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Multi-destination and multi-purpose trip effects in the analysis of the demand for trips to a remote recreational site
Martínez-Espiñeira, Roberto; Amoako-Tuffour, Joe - 2008
One of the basic assumptions of the travel cost method for recreational demand analysis is that the travel cost is always incurred for a single purpose recreational trip. Several studies have skirted around the issue with simplifying assumptions and dropping observations considered as...
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Agri-environmental policies in a transition economy : using a choice experiment to value agricultural biodiversity on Hungarian small farms
Birol, Ekin; Gyovai, Ágnes; Smale, Melinda - 2004
Agricultural biodiversity is a crucial environmental resource. Much of the agricultural biodiversity remaining today is found on the semi-subsistence farms of poorer countries and on the small-scale farms and home gardens of more industrialised nations. The traditional Hungarian home gardens,...
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The copula approach to sample selection modelling : an application to the recreational value of forests
Genius, Margarita; Strazzera, Elisabetta - 2004
The sample selection model is based upon a bivariate or a multivariate structure, and distributional assumptions are in this context more severe than in univariate settings, due to the limited availability of tractable multivariate distributions. While the standard FIML estimation of the...
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The economics of warm glow : a note on consumer's behavior and public policy implications
Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Onofri, Laura - 2004
The paper focuses on the ongoing debate on non-market valuation, including the valuation environmental goods, and the opportunity to use contingent valuation for policy guidance. In fact, contingent valuation critics argue that reported willingness to pay answers do not reflect real economic...
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Integrated environmental study for beach management : a methodological approach
Fabiano, Mauro; Camarsa, Gabriella; Dursi, Rosanna; … - 2004
This paper aims to present a project convened by the University of Genoa and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), in collaboration with Local Authorities, concerning the development of tools for beach management in the Riviera del Beigua (Liguria Region, Italy). The aim of the first step of the...
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Destination choice models for rock climbing in the Northeast Alps : a latent-class approach based on intensity of participation
Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara - 2004
Practitioners of outdoor sports, such as rock-climbers, are likely to exhibit preference heterogeneity that depends on the keenness' with which such sports are practiced. Such an intuition is born out in at least one study using latent class discrete choice modelling (Provencher et al. 2002)....
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Environmental zoning and urban development : natural regional parks in France
Salanié, Julien; Coisnon, Thomas - 2016
This study provides an empirical analysis of the effects of environmental zoning on urban development. It focuses on the case of Natural Regional Parks (NRPs) in France. Of the environmental zoning instruments used in France, NRPs extend over the widest physical area. The analysis uses a...
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Private options to use public goods : exploiting revealed preferences to estimate environmental benefits
Snyder, Lori Diane; Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F. - 2003
We develop and apply a new method for estimating the economic benefits of an environmental amenity. The method fits within the household production framework (Becker 1965), and is based upon the notion of estimating the derived demand for a privately traded option to utilize a freely-available...
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Transboundary water resources for people and nature : challenges and opportunities in the Olifants river basin
Mirzabaev, Alisher; Njiraini, Georgina Wambui; … - 2019
This paper proposes that transboundary water governance needs to become an essential input to sustainable governance of protected natural reserves. The paper reviews the challenges and opportunities for such governance mechanisms, and identifies the factors behind successful practices....
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