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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"non-market valuation"”.
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Non-market valuation of urban ecosystem services in Penang, Malaysia
This thesis explores the non-market values of ecosystem services in Penang's urban green spaces, addressing threats posed by urbanization. Utilizing non-market valuation techniques, this study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the contributions of urban green spaces to the local …
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Essays on Environmental Economics with a Focus on Non-market Valuation
… water usage efficiency. Chapter 3 focuses on non-market valuation of environmental (dis)amenities. Specifically, this chapter investigates the impact of urban tree cover on residential property location decision in the housing market of Milwaukee, WI. Residential sorting model embedded with …
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Essays on the Non-market Valuation and Optimal Control of Bio-invasions in Urban Forest Resources
… house sales data from multiple property markets across the U.S. The study analyses how home owners' preference for tree cover vary across the landscape and across cities. Further, it identifies what factors affect these variations via the general inferences obtained from an internal …
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Valuing biodiversity: Decision support for biosecurity response
… the DSS are a synthesis of three components of non-market valuation: choice modelling, a systematic database of values and benefit transfer, with risk simulation to account for uncertainty. The innovative framework is demonstrated in a manual developed for Biosecurity New Zealand analysts for …
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Assessing demand for green electricity products amongst upper-middle income Western Cape households a contingent valuation study
… be expressed in monetary terms. Since existing markets trade in electricity as a homogenous good, market data is of little use in this regard, and non-market valuation approaches are required. This study seeks to answer three key questions: To what extent would upper-middle income households in …
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Methodological advances in benefit transfer and hedonic analysis
… and econometric methods in two distinct areas of non-market valuation: benefit transfer (BT) and hedonic analysis. While the first and the third chapters address the challenge of estimating the societal benefits of prospective environmental policy changes by adopting locally weighted regression …
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Three Essays on the Interactions between Agriculture and the Environment
… third essays). The first essay proposes a multimarket equilibrium approach to estimating the consumer surplus for environmentally-friendly technologies adopted by farmers. Compared to conventional non-market valuation techniques based on single-market equilibrium, this new method allows for …
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Comprehensive wealth measurement and spatial hedonic analysis : social capital and social amenities
… which is defined as including intangible and non-market as well as tangible and market assets. This dissertation responds to this rising interest by developing explicit concepts, indicators, and sources of data necessary to measure comprehensive wealth at various spatial scales. It achieves …
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Economic Valuation of Water Quality Improvements in New Zealand
… cannot be directly measured. The advent of non-market valuation techniques has made it possible to estimate these values. In this thesis, the travel cost random utility model and fishing choice data from the National Angling Survey are used to assess the benefits of better water quality for …
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Capitalization of Environmental Amenities and Wildfire in Private Home Values of the Wildland Urban Interface of Northwest Montana, USA
… and timber values. However, society derives many non-market benefits from publicly managed WUI areas, including recreation and aesthetically pleasing vistas, which are affected by wildfire management. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of wildfire on social welfare in northwest …
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Capitalization of Environmental Amenities and Wildfire in Private Home Values of the Wildland Urban Interface of Northwest Montana, USA
… and timber values. However, society derives many non-market benefits from publicly managed WUI areas, including recreation and aesthetically pleasing vistas, which are affected by wildfire management. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of wildfire on social welfare in northwest …
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Valuation methods of biodiversity
… be expected to rise as well. Since there are no markets for the state of biodiversity, non-market valuation methods need to be employed. Ecosystem services can serve as a link connecting nature and human well-being, and they can be viewed as sources of economic value of biodiversity. Key …
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Assessing values for multiple and conflicting uses of freshwater in the Canterbury region
… quality as this is not always reflected in the market. This study assessed how Canterbury residents value and trade-off multiple attributes of freshwater use by applying Discrete Choice Modelling (DCM) methodology. DCM is a commonly applied non-market valuation method that involves the …
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Natural Resource Needs Assessment Survey and a Nonmarket Valuation Study of Nevada's Big Game Hunts
… SWAPA. Fourth, with data from the survey, we use nonmarket valuation methods to estimate the marginal willingness to pay for big game hunting trip attributes including: the type of animal, habitat quality, site accessibility, and solitude. We find that these attributes contribute to the benefits …
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The price of Mauri: Exploring the validity of welfare economics when seeking to measure Mātauranga Māori
… 1980s New Zealand has pursued neo-classical or market-based policies with a particular fervour. Market-based options are seen by resource management decision makers as essential frameworks for efficiently allocating resources, an approach that continues to support the view of the inherent …
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Social costing for preservation decisions : the nature, significance and elicitation of wilderness values
… processes; and (3) to propose the use of one non-market valuation method which shows promise for gaining improved insight into complex land use decisions. Value concepts based on preferences offer a framework within which values can be understood and assessed. Wilderness values are thus …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
… interface (WUI) at the expense of other market and non-market attributes. Due to increasing development within the WUI, climate change, and excessive fuel loading from decades of successful fire suppression, it is likely that fire suppression costs will continue to rise if current …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
… interface (WUI) at the expense of other market and non-market attributes. Due to increasing development within the WUI, climate change, and excessive fuel loading from decades of successful fire suppression, it is likely that fire suppression costs will continue to rise if current …
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Valuing Chicago’s beaches across race and income
Much research has estimated the recreational values of natural areas, but that research has largely neglected the values of natural areas in urban environments, and has focused on generating total or median household values rather than exploring how benefits are distributed among racial, ethnic, …
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Grassland restoration and recreation in the U.S.: Value and relationship to climate change beliefs and impacts
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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