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Perception of environment quality and attitudes towards tourism: Evidence from lake engure watershed area
Sechi, Guido; Krisjane, Zaiga; Berzins, Maris; … - 2014
Tourism management literature in the last decades has paid much attention to the study of resident perceptions and attitudes towards tourism development. Results of empirical research have variously linked such perceptions and attitudes to issues of socio-economic growth and socio-environmental...
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Rural tourism and territorial development in Romania
Sima, Elena - 2020
Rural tourism in Romania has significant potential. The Romanian effort to develop and promote tourism in the rural area has been completed by the support provided by the European Union funds. In this context, the objective of this paper is to highlight the territorial development of the rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519758
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Sustainable rural development through tourism activities in Dobrugdea's rural area
Sima, Elena - 2017
The sustainable rural development of the Dobrudgean rural area requires reaching a balance between the need to preserve the rural economic, ecological and cultural space and the tendency to modernize the rural economic activity and life. The pleading for the promotion of tourism activities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011948412
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Implications of an increase in domestic prices of gas in Russia, an application of the regional economic model SUSTRUS
Heyndrickx, Christophe; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - 2012
The present paper studies the effect of an upward correction of the natural gas price on the Russian domestic market. Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world and currently produces around 550 billion cubic meters of gas each year. Sixty percent of the production is sold domestically at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340686
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Sustainability dimensions of agricultural development in Almería (Spain): The experience of 50 years
Galdeano-Gómez, Emilio; Aznar-Sánchez, José A.; … - 2012
becomes difficult to achieve a balance between the three dimensions of sustainability due to a series of problems, including … sustainability dimensions. It is particularly interesting to observe how a highly social agrarian system has evolved thanks to the … sector, essentially without outside support, provides the basis for economic sustainability of the whole province makes it a …
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Sustainability of the development in the mountain - disadvantaged areas: the case of Vlasti in Greece
Pitoska, Electra - 2013
mapping and managing sustainability of the mountain ? disadvantaged areas, whether tourism development in mountain areas and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397474
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The sustainability of yachting tourism: A case study on Greece
Chen, Jamie; Balomenou, Chrysanthi; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2016
competition from some neighboring countries prompt a big challenge on the sustainability of the Greek yachting tourism industry … achieving the aforementioned aims, both theoretical research in sustainability and the empirical aspects of the Greek yachting … sustainability of the Greek yachting tourism negatively; our comparative study prospects also new knowledge to guide the sustainable …
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A behavioural model of the adoption and use of new telecommunications media: the effects of communication scenarios and media product/service attributes
Hu, Tun-I; Fildes, Robert - 2010
Recent years have seen the dramatic growth of new modes of communication. Above and beyond using land line and mobile phone for voice real-time communication, people spend increasing amounts of time receiving and sending messages through social networks (e.g. Myspace or Facebook) and also...
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Embedding Effects in the OECD Better Life Index
von Reumont, Louisa; Schöb, Ronnie; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017
The OECD aims to foster ‘better policies for better lives'. To this end, the OECD invites people to evaluate quality-of-life indicators according to their individual preferences, using the web-based Better Life Index. These indicators are embedded in 11 broader well-being dimensions. Our...
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Mitigating Hypothetical Bias: Evidence on the Effects of Correctives from a Large Field Study
Frondel, Manuel; Andor, Mark; Vance, Colin - 2015
The overestimation of willingness-to-pay (WTP) in hypothetical responses is a well-known finding in the literature. Various techniques have been proposed to remove or, at least, reduce this bias. Using about 30,000 responses on WTP for a variety of power mixes from a panel of 6,500 German...
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