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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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Despite the large use of the travel cost method as estimation technique for the demand for forest recreation …
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The PARVS survey was used to estimate demand models on Forest Service land; for 12 activities in 9 Forest Service …
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Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend seems to be changing due in part to the relative success of payment...
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The Mexican Ethanol Project has the potential of power up rural economy, improve the environment quality, and substitute the non-renewable fossil energy resources. But the risk of not achieving these is latent: the market distorts that it could unleash can change the expected outcomes. Public...
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population, poverty and livelihood affect the neighbouring forest resources or how are they affected by the degradation of … forests. Various assessments have assigned the major responsibility in the loss of forest cover at various places either to … this paper is to unfold the nature of dependence on forest and factors affecting degradation of forest in Meghalaya in an …
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This paper examines a variety of approaches to the issue of Nile river Basin planning with a special reference to the model of The Permanent Joint Technical Commission of the Nile Waters between Sudan and Egypt (PJTC) and experiences from eleven Sub-Saharan African (SSA) River Basin...
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relatively fl at topography, mostly below 500 m. To the north, the zone merges with the forest-tundra of the Arctic, to the west … account for less than 5–10% of the resource. The dominant forest type, known as western taiga, contains a mixture of Norway …
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