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Using economic valuation techniques to inform water resources management : A survey and critical appraisal of available techniques and an application
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The role of economic valuation techniques in assisting in the design of efficient, equitable and sustainable policies for water resources management in the face of environmental problems such as pollution, intensive land use in agriculture and climate change is defined.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2006-07-15. It has received 357 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Integrated water resources management & Contingent valuation.read more
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Social factors influencing the decision to pay for the protection of biodiversity: A case study in two national parks of Northern Greece
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of social factors (expressed as social norms, institutional and social trust and social networks) on the decision of individuals to pay for the protection of biodiversity.
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Recreational ecosystem service benefits from the Chestermere Lake Reservoir : value for day use non-resident visitors
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Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics
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A New Approach to Consumer Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend activity analysis into consumption theory and assume that goods possess, or give rise to, multiple characteristics in fixed proportions and that it is these characteristics, not goods themselves, on which the consumer's preferences are exercised.
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Using surveys to value public goods : the contingent valuation method
TL;DR: Mitchell and Carson as discussed by the authors argue that at this time the contingent valuation (CV) method offers the most promising approach for determining public willingness to pay for many public goods, an approach likely to succeed, if used carefully, where other methods may fail.
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The Economics of Exhaustible Resources
TL;DR: In this article, a discussion is confined in scope to absolutely irreplaceable assets, including peculiar problems of mineral wealth, free competition, maximum social value and state regulation, monopoly, value of a mine monopoly, retardation of production under monopoly, price effects from cumulated production, and the author's mathematically derived optimum solutions.