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Using the Delphi method to value protection of the Amazon rainforest
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In this article, the authors explore the Delphi method for estimating the value of protecting the Amazon rainforest, by asking more than 200 environmental valuation experts from 37 countries on four continents to predict the outcome of a contingent valuation survey to elicit willingness-to-pay (WTP) for Amazon forest protection by their own countries' populations.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 55 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Contingent valuation & Valuation (finance).read more
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Harnessing a 'currency matrix' for performance measurement in cooperatives : A multi-phased study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive dashboard for cooperative performance assessment that harmonizes business-social aspects and catalogs the basic components for future attempts, which is based on an extensive review of empirical research in cooperative performance and a Delphi study with 14 experts.
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Applying the Delphi method to assess impacts of forest management on biodiversity and habitat preservation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied a structured expert elicitation technique, the Delphi method, to identify the impacts of five forest management alternatives and several forest characteristics on the preservation of biodiversity and habitats in the boreal zone of the Nordic countries.
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A proposal for engaging a stakeholder panel in planning post-mining land uses in Australia’s coal-rich tropical savannahs
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential for panels comprised of stakeholders to agree on a beneficial land use, which is one of the four goals of mine rehabilitation and closure specified by the Queensland regulator, is explored.
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Willingness to pay for forest conservation in Ecuador: results from a nationwide contingent valuation survey in a combined "referendum" - "consequential open-ended" design.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined households' preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a proposed forest conservation program aiming to avoid deforestation in Ecuador and found that about 98% of surveyed households consider the proposed program worth supporting.
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The assessment of rural development: Identification of an applicable set of indicators through a Delphi approach
I. Abreu,Francisco J. Mesías +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of demographic, economic, environmental, and social welfare indicators that must be taken into account to assess rural development and related policies is presented, and a group of experts analyzed 88 proposed indicators and selected 25 based on their importance and on the consensus of the panel.
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the delphi method: techniques and applications
Harold A. Linstone,Murray Turoff +1 more
TL;DR: The present model clarifies some of the conceptual problems associated with cross-impact analysis, and supplies a relatively sound basis for revising probability estimates in the limited case where interactions can be approximated by relative probabilities.
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An Experimental Application of the Delphi Method to the Use of Experts
Norman Crolee Dalkey,Olaf Helmer +1 more
TL;DR: The DELPHI method was devised in order to obtain the most reliable opinion consensus of a group of experts by subjecting them to a series of questionnaires in depth interspersed with controlled opinion feedback as mentioned in this paper.
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The Delphi method as a research tool: an example, design considerations and applications
Chitu Okoli,Suzanne D. Pawlowski +1 more
TL;DR: Detailed principles for making design choices during the process of selecting appropriate experts for the Delphi study are given and suggestions for theoretical applications are made.
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The Combination of Forecasts
J. M. Bates,Clive W. J. Granger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two separate sets of forecasts of airline passenger data have been combined to form a composite set of forecasts, and different methods of deriving these weights have been examined.
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An Illustration of a Pitfall in Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Variables on Micro Units
TL;DR: The authors illustrates the danger of spurious regression from this kind of misspecification, using as an example a wage regression estimated on data for individual workers that includes in the specification aggregate regressors for characteristics of geographical states.
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