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Private Options to Use Public Goods Exploiting Revealed Preferences to Estimate Environmental Benefits

Snyder, Lori D.; 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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Management Challenges for Multiple-Species Boreal Forests

Crépin, Anne Sophie - 2003

Recent research in natural sciences shows that boreal forests' dynamics are much more complex than what many models traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest owners continuously harvest several species,...

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Can people value the aesthetic and use services of urban sites? Evidence from a survey of Belfast residents

Alberini, Anna; Riganti, Patrizia; Longo, Alberto - 2002

This study explores the potential of conjoint choice analysis for planning decisions in urban sites. We elicit people's preferences for regeneration projects that change the aesthetic and use character of specified urban sites. We focus on two sets of regeneration projects. The first set entails...

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General Equilibrium Approach consistent with Travel Cost Method for Economic Evaluation of Beach Erosion by Climate Change

Nakajima, Kazunori; Sakamoto, Naoki - 2013

Numerous attempts have been made to evaluate economic impacts by climate change, and the evaluation method can be … economic impacts of changes in natural environment by climate change and environmental conservation policies. On the other hand …, both direct and indirect impacts of climate change through changes in the behavior of economic agents can be captured. A …

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Measurement of Use and Non-use Values of Shirakami Mountain Range by using CVM Consistent with TCM

Ohno, Eiji; Mori, Ryuta; Morisugi, Masafumi; Sao, Hiroshi - 2013

Shirakami Mountain Range has the largest primeval forest in the world, and has some public functions; the biodiversity function, the water resource cultivation function, the health and recreation function and so on. This study tries to measure its environmental economic value by using the travel...

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Measuring lost recreational benefits in Fukushima due to harmful rumors using a Poisson-inverse Gaussian regression?

Nohara, Katsuhito; Narukawa, Masaki - 2015

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake hereafter, 'the Earthquake' and the accident involving radiation leakage at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 hereafter, 'NPP No. 1' brought fame to Fukushima Prefecture but not in a positive way. In general, economic damage...

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Exports and Externalities: the other side of trade and ecological risk and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World

Warziniack, Travis; Finnoff, David; Shogren, Jason F.; … - 2009

This paper develops a general equilibrium model to measure welfare effects of taxes for correcting environmental externalities caused by domestic trade, focusing on exter- nalities that arise through exports. Externalities from exports come from a number of sources. Domestically owned ships,...

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Efficient Allocation of Land between Productive Use and Recreational Use - An Application to Galician Case

Giménez, Eduardo L.; González-Gómez, Manuel - 2001

In this paper the efficient allocation of natural recreational areasis analysed. Natural recreational areas have the features of publicgoods. We present the efficient allocation of this non-excludablepublic good in a rational general equilibrium model withheterogeneous agents. This allows us to...

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Measuring the Economic Value of a Marine Protection Program against the Introduction of Non-Indigenous Species in the Netherlands

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2002

Harmful algal bIoom species are the cause of important damages to marine living resources and human beings. These marine species are primarily introduced in North-European waters through ballast water, i.e. water trans-ported across the oceans so as to keep a vessel in balance. Port authorities...

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LDC export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy": What roles for tourism linkages?

Honeck, Dale - 2012

Pro-poor tourism is arguably one of the best green options for addressing LDC poverty, employment and economic diversification initiatives. Although often neglected as a serious policy option - and consequently most of its potential still remains untapped - tourism is the leading export for at...

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