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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Willingness to pay (WTP)"”.
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Awareness and Willingness to Pay for Moringa as a Leafy Vegetable in Limpopo Province
Moringa has been used to fight against malnutrition in developing countries as a result of its high nutrient content. The move to use Moringa was seen as both feasible and effective. However, it is not commonly consumed as a vegetable in the South African diet, except by particular ethnic groups. …
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Community management of wetland ecology and socio-economic costs of wetland degradation in mudaswali Wetland, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… costs. Judgemental assessment method was used to select the site for observations and availability of respondents. A structured questionnaire with open and closed ended questions was administered to 65 respondents who reside in the vicinity of the Mudaswali wetland. Focus group discussion …
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Willingness to Pay for Safer Bathing Water in Poland: A Discrete Choice Experiment linked to Benefit-Cost Analysis
… increasing the frequency of seawater quality monitoring. A discrete choice experiment with a tax payment vehicle was used to derive willingness to pay (WTP) for policy attributes, which was analysed using a mixed logit model in preference space to capture unobserved preference heterogeneity. We …
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A unique perspective on the demand for livestock product attributes
… scaling (BWS) methodology have been used to elicit consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for food attributes and the relative importance of food attributes to consumers. The dissertation consists of four essays. Chapter 2 presents a formal law review article exploring the laws associated with …
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Evaluation of community preferences for decentralised water management systems: a case study in Akaroa, Banks Peninsula
… water have become major issues in Akaroa, a tourist town on the Banks Peninsula approximately 80 kilometres from Christchurch City. Restrictions on domestic water use in the summer and new requirements for decentralised water management systems for new construction have been used to alleviate …
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Consumer perceptions of and willingness to pay for lettuce from different agricultural production systems
… production method with the potential to change the way lettuce (and other produce) is grown. However, less is known about how consumers will react to this new technology in the marketplace. In this study, we examine consumers’ perceptions of and willingness to pay (WTP) for lettuce …
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Valuing Chicago’s beaches across race and income
… environments, and has focused on generating total or median household values rather than exploring how benefits are distributed among racial, ethnic, and socio-economic sub-groups of society. This paper fills those gaps by estimating the value of Chicago's public beaches and how the …
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Some new approaches to measuring willingness to pay: a case study of flood risk reduction in Roanoke, Virginia
Benefits from a flood control project that accrue to a landowner are defined as the amount the landowner is willing to pay for the reduction in flood risk. The primary method utilized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to estimate a residential landowner's benefits is the property damages avoided …
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Essays on the Economic Value of Environmental Cleanup
… that the property value is the most sensitive to water base contamination, published case studies result in systematically greater environmental value than those in unpublished reports, and real estate markets show responses to environmental condition changes. The second study uses sales and …
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Hispanic Consumers’ Preferences and Willingness-to-Pay for Grass-Fed Beef in Virginia
The primary objective of this dissertation is to determine Hispanic consumers’ preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for grass-fed beef. Two hundred and thirty-one Hispanic consumers in four experiment sites in Virginia (Galax, Roanoke, Richmond, and Blacksburg) participated in an experimental …
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Small Fruit Production in Mountain Areas with the use of Biocontrol Agents: Investigating Farmers' Attitudes and Consumers' Choice in Trentino.
… agents (BCAs) can serve as an alternative to chemicals in integrated pest management (IPM) systems. Although the adoption of BCAs is strongly affected by the socioeconomic environment in which they are to be applied and by farmersâ€TM attitudes, these factors have been poorly investigated …
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Congestion control in multi-serviced heterogeneous wireless networks using dynamic pricing
Service providers, (or operators) employ pricing schemes to help provide desired QoS to subscribers and to maintain profitability among competitors. An economically efficient pricing scheme, which will seamlessly integrate users’ preferences as well as service providers’ preferences, is therefore …
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WTP for RAS salmon by the US consumer
… EPA and DHA, have been strongly evidenced to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. One of the richest sources of EPA and DHA in the U.S. diet is farmed Atlantic salmon, which has shown a steady consumption growth in the past decade. …
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Economic and chemometric studies to supplement food-grade soybean variety development in the Mid-Atlantic region
… the edamame industry has been slow in part due to insufficient information on its potential profitability and marketability. As such, the first and second objectives of this thesis aimed at 1) determining production costs of hand-harvested fresh edamame enterprise and 2) exploring consumer …
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Quality Improvement Projects: Uncertain Benefits of Willingness to Pay from Referendum Contingent Valuation
The use of contingent valuation (CV) methods to estimate benefits has become increasingly common in project analysis. Ever since the NOAA Blue Ribbon Panel Report in 1993 (NOAA, 1993) recommended the use of the referendum form of CV, it seems to have become the method of choice in practical …
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The real deal: Willingness-to-pay and satiety expectations are greater for real foods versus their images
Laboratory studies of human dietary choice have relied on computerized two-dimensional (2D) images as stimuli, whereas in everyday life, consumers make decisions in the context of real foods that have actual caloric content and afford grasping and consumption. Surprisingly, few studies have …
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Consumers' purchasing behaviour under risk and uncertainty: three essays on food authenticity
… first essay uses an artefactual field experiment to explore bidding behaviour under risk and uncertainty in homegrown value (HGV) and induced value (IV) settings using Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism (BDM) and second price Vickrey auctions (SPVA). It investigates if deviations from theoretical …
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Great Langdale Valley, Cumbria: An Analysis of the viability of road-user charging as a Demand Management Tool for motor-vehicle dependent recreation
… the potential application of road-user charging to the Transportation Demand Management Strategy for Great Langdale Valley in the Lake District National Park. There were three research objectives: firstly, to investigate the response of motorists to the hypothetical imposition of monetary …
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Investigating the Impact of Health and Environmental Framing on Consumer Preference for Sustainable Food Packaging: A Choice Experiment
… cost but also a great economic cost to Canada. Consequently, consumers, companies, and governments are seeking alternatives to typical PET plastic packaging, namely bioplastics. Bioplastics are seen as a more sustainable alternative to PET plastic as they are biodegradable and made …
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Evaluation of Manure Management Systems (MMS) and Cost-Share Programs for Mitigating Livestock Environmental Impacts
… is a climate-exposed industry, creating the need to implement climate-smart manure management practices to alleviate manure's pollutive potential through greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe) and excess nutrient management. Manure management systems (MMS) require high initial investment for …
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