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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"nonmarket valuation"”.
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Three essays on stated choice experiments for nonmarket valuation of landslide protection
This thesis consists of three essays that improve the general understanding of the public demand for safety programmes in the context of natural hazards. With the growing importance of this topic around the world, this study provides a practical and methodological contribution to the literature on …
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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 Value of Wildlife Watching Recreation and Techniques for Addressing Nonresponse in Nonmarket Valuation Surveys
… approaches available for combining data from nonmarket valuation surveys such as the travel cost method (TCM) and contingent valuation method (CVM). Another topic explored in this dissertation is the issue of nonresponse in nonmarket valuation surveys. The results of this dissertation are …
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Essays on Methods to Support Ecosystem Accounting
… The first two chapters focus on pricing and valuation for Ecosystem Services (ES), a subject of ongoing debate in the literature. They focus specifically on recreation-related ecosystem services (RES) and examine the use of revealed preference techniques to estimate their exchange value, …
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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
… a significant contribution to the literature on nonmarket valuation of river water quality improvements in developing countries. Study results will be helpful for policy makers in determining the efficient management strategy, especially for the long term river conservation, rehabilitation, and …
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Essays on willingness and ability to pay for health insurance among informal sector workers in Sierra Leone
… exchanged in the market place. For this reason, nonmarket valuation is increasingly becoming an important tool for informing policy makers. The Contingent Valuation and Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) are the most widely used methods. However, due to its increased popularity, the ability to …
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Estimating demand for environmental goods and services, now and later
… begins with a brief overview of the practice of nonmarket valuation, with discussion of previous applications and the methods that I advance in the subsequent chapters. I also provide a common nomenclature for continuity in understanding, the underlying intuition and motivation, and discussion of …
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Essays in Suface Water Quality Valuation
… examining methods for surface water quality valuation. The first essay uses Zillow's ZTRAX property transaction database to investigate variation in hedonic price effects of water clarity on single-family houses throughout the United States. I consider five spatial scales and estimate models …
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Farmland Conservation Easement Valuation Using an Attribute-based Choice Survey: Comparing Preferences within the United States, Georgia, Ohio and Maine
Farmland preservation has long been viewed by the public as a worthwhile endeavor. A public program can be set up to bring willing buyers and sellers together to facilitate the transfer of development rights. The farmer is paid for the opportunity cost of forfeiting the development rights to the …
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Using choice experiments to value preferences over stormwater management
U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 45518 on 2015-08-22T10:00:22Z.