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Andrade de Sa, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - 2010

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food production. A partial equilibrium model of a national economy with two sectors and two regions, one of which includes a residual forest, is developed. It analyses how an exogenous...

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How to incorporate the spatial dimension within destination choice models? The case of Antwerpen

Thomas, Isabelle; Verhetsel, Ann; Witlox, Frank; … - 2004

destination alternatives. Several modelling approaches are explored and compared in terms of utility function (for instance Box …

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Calculating benefits of infrastructural investment

Zoellig, Christof; Axhausen, Kay W - 2010

. Some authors hint at the possibility to measure consumer surplus applying the concept of the expected maximum utility (EMU … possibilities in a minimal urban system. We use random utility maximisation and discrete choice theory with an agent-based modelling … whose properties get higher accessibility. Concerning the utility indicators we find that EMU is more consistent. Further we …

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Industrial Risks and Housing Prices

Grislain-Letremy, Celine; Katossky, Arthur - 2012

Housing prices can decrease because of proximity to hazardous industrial plants. This effect depends on households' perception of risk and can so be modified by events that change risk perception, such as technological risk prevention plans in France. The impact of these plans is difficult to...

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The Effect Of Current And Future Land Use On House Prices

Pouyanne, Guillaume; Dantas, Monique; Gaschet, Frédéric - 2013

The control of urban sprawl often involves policies of allowable use zoning. By protecting large areas from development, such policies may, in fact, provoke ?leapfrog? development through their inflationary effect on the land and property markets in the area which is already urbanised. This...

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Socio-economic explanation of urban sprawl: Evidence from Switzerland, 1970-2010

Weilenmann, Barbara; Schulz, Tobias - 2014

The term urban sprawl is often used to describe apparent inefficiencies of spatial development, including disproportionate growth of urban areas and excessive leapfrog development. In Switzerland, where open space is a scare resource, sprawl takes place all over the country. It goes at the...

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Planning for the Future: A Land-Use and Transport Interaction Model for Switzerland

Bodenmann, Balz R.; Sanchez, Breogan; Zeiler, Alexandra; … - 2014

Spatial and transport planners, authorities, real estate developers, investors, re-locating residents and businesses have different questions related to space and transport. These questions may concern specific land parcels, or cover a much larger area such as a city, a region, or even a whole...

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Market Structure and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources

Yegorov, Yuri - 2015

Sustainable use of natural resources becomes an important issue today not only due to global warming and pollution issues but also because of critical pressure on the Earth?s regeneration possibility. We cannot use classical microeconomic approach here for two reasons: a) impossibility to create...

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Theoretical Analysis of Urban Land Use Change by Information Provision for Nankai Trough Huge Earthquake in Japan

Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Mizuno, Kentaro - 2015

. Moreover, since a decrease in the household utility due to an increase in the occurrence probability of the earthquake gets …

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Economic approach to nature conservation - Land use change

Nogueira, Pedro - 2015

The relationship between land use and biodiversity is important to understand the decision support systems in order to attain sustainability. Nowadays, land use and biodiversity management is focused on protected areas, discarding other habitats, tending to favor exclusive property rights over...

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