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Economic assessment of the recreational value of ecosystems in Great Britain

Sen, Antara; Darnell, A.; Bateman, Ian; Munday, P.; … - 2012

In this paper we present a novel methodology to determine the annual value of recreational visit flows to different habitat types in Great Britain. We combine different empirical models to predict the spatial distributions of recreational value across Great Britain. The models use a combination...

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Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters in Megacities: The Case of Floods in São Paulo, Brazil

Haddad, Eduardo; Teixeira, Eliane - 2013

in the city of São Paulo through the use of a spatial CGE model integrated to GIS information related to the location of …

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A Spatial Analysis of Tourism Activity in Romania

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Dardala, Adriana Elena - 2015

analytical tools that combine GIS and spatial agglomeration analysis based techniques. They can be also employed in order to … enhance appropriate support networks. Territorial and spatial statistics as well as GIS based analyses are applied, using data …

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Monetary Valuation of Aircraft Noise

Dekkers, Jasper; van der Straaten, Willemijn - 2008

In densely-populated countries and in particular in large metropolitan areas, the presence of so much human activity causes all sorts of negative externalities, for example traffic noise disturbance. These externalities call for corrective measures by the government. Economists have developed a...

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Mapping marginality hotspots: Geographical targeting for poverty reduction

Graw, Valerie; Ladenburger, Christine - 2012

This mapping approach aims to make the marginalized and poor visible by identifying areas with difficult biophysical and socio-economic conditions. Mapping using different data sources and data types gives deeper insight into possible causal interlinkages and offers the opportunity for...

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Intraregionale Unterschiede in der Carsharing-Nachfrage: Eine GIS-basierte empirische Analyse

Braun, Andreas; Hochschild, Volker; Koch, Andreas - 2013

unterschiedliche Nachfrage nach Carsharing-Angeboten beeinflussen. Basierend auf einem Geographischen Informationssystem (GIS) wird ein … a geographic information system (GIS) and comprehensive empirical data from the city of Tübingen, Germany, we explain …

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Transferring multivariate benefit functions using geographical information systems

Bateman, Ian J.; Brainard, Julii S.; Lovett, Andrew A. - 1998

successfully modelling the inter-site variation in predictors. The present study employs a geographical information system (GIS) to … target sites. The paper applies Poisson regression techniques to a set of GIS derived explanatory variables predicting … arrivals and consumer surplus estimates at a single target woodland recreation site. GIS techniques are then used to define a …

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Spatio-temporal analysis and simulation pattern of land use/cover changes, case study: Naghadeh, Iran

Amini Parsa, Vahid; Salehi, Esmail - In: Journal of Urban Management 5 (2016) 2, pp. 43-51

As a result of the growing impacts on global environments, it has become important for land use planners to extract, detect, monitor and predict land use/cover changes (LUCCs). The monitoring of LUCCs within a certain time period and predicting future trends of temporal and spatial changes are...

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GIS based land suitability analysis using AHP model for urban services planning in Srinagar and Jammu urban centers of J&K, India

Parry, Jahangeer A.; Ganaie, Showkat A.; Sultan Bhat, M. - In: Journal of Urban Management 7 (2018) 2, pp. 46-56

Rapid urbanization and consequent haphazard growth of cities result in deterioration of infrastructure facilities, loss of agricultural land, water bodies, open spaces, and many micro-climatic changes. This unprecedented growth in city population put pressure on urban amenities and led to their...

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Impacts of urbanization on land use /cover changes and its probable implications on local climate and groundwater level

Patra, Suman; Sahoo, Satiprasad; Mishra, Pulak; … - In: Journal of Urban Management 7 (2018) 2, pp. 70-84

using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Spatiotemporal satellite images and conventional data are used to characterize the …

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