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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Public Preferences"”.
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Public preferences for nongame wildlife programs in Virginia
… to self-declared hunters from the general public sample. Contributors to Virginia's nongame fund are more likely than hunters to be single, suburban males, with advanced educations and white-collar jobs. Contributor preferences and values are similar to those of hunters except they are less …
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MEASURING PUBLIC PREFERENCES FOR AND THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE MULTIFUNCTIONALITY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES
… about the attitudinal, demographic, and economic preferences of the public for financially supporting these non-market commodities. Our research, using the contingent valuation research method, found that select attitudinal and demographic variables were significant in the public's decision to …
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Opportunity Between the Turbines: A Willingness-to-Pay Experiment Regarding Co-Location Activities with the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Farm
… modeling, this research quantifies Virginia public preferences for various co-location options within the lease area of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) farm. Our estimated WTP values show Virginia's public preference for the addition of co-location to the CVOW lease area to be …
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Siting Community Wind Farms: An Investigation of NIMBY
… objectives increasingly focus on renewables. Public opinion polls show that a majority of Americans support wind energy development but actual wind farm projects often face intense local opposition. This dichotomy between general support for wind energy but opposition towards siting a project …
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A Perceptual Study of Wetlands: Implications for Wetland Restoration in the Urban Area in Malaysia
… of society. One reason for this is that the public perceives the environment in different ways than do the experts, such as landscape architects and land managers. This dissertation analyzes people's preferences for wetlands in comparison to those of landscape architects. It specifically …
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On ‘Clear and Present Danger’: The Influence of Firearm Legislation on College Student Perceptions of Mental Illness and Treatment-Seeking Intentions
… in an effort to reduce gun violence may increase public stigma via further associating MI with dangerousness and increasing public preferences for social distance. The present study experimentally investigated whether firearm laws targeting persons with MI who are considered to be a ‘clear and …
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How local can government go? : lessons from fiscal decentralization in Uganda
… going to administrative costs and not towards public services. Interviews with local residents indicate a unsurprising stronger preference for higher spending on public goods, but also indicates residents are not comfortable questioning local administrators' spending habits. The lack of local …
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THE NEW POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
… poorly compatible with EU's, while the degree of public support for the Union is of particular relevance in the case of 'deep and comprehensive' agreements that touch on sensitive domestic issues. Third, drawing on the emerging research agenda on the 'parliamentarisation' of EU trade …
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Essays on the political economy of welfare and redistribution
… statistics, this chapter demonstrates that public ideological preferences influence government decisions regarding the size of welfare expenditure. The chapter further presents a meaningful difference between fully and less democratic countries in welfare policy responsiveness; among less …
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The Legislature in Immigration Policy-Making: A Liberal Constraint?
… is that whilst governments endeavour to reflect public preferences for restrictive immigration policy, they are prevented from doing so by norms and institutions that are characteristic of liberal democracies. These ‘liberal constraints’ include the national judiciary; international human rights …
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Ecological and Aesthetic Factors' Preferences of Urban Riparian Corridor in Arid Regions: A Visual Choice Experiment
The aim of this study is to examine the public preferences for urban riparian corridors in arid regions, by testing to what extent people are willing to trade-off unmaintained ecological landscape for aesthetics offered by specific micro and macro environmental factors. Landscape design …
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Demand for Water Quality: Empirical Evidence from a Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Choice Experiment Survey about the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal
… objective of this dissertation is to assess public preferences and estimate the benefits of improving environmental quality, water quality in particular, using survey data from Kathmandu, Nepal. Chapter 2 provides estimates of the benefits of improving water quality in the Bagmati River using …