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Creator:: Mahan, Brent L
Abstract:: Wetlands play an important role in our social and economic well being. Many services wetlands provide, such as wildlife habitat, recreation, and aesthetics, are collective goods. Because these services are not represented in a market, an over supply of wetlands converted to other uses and an under supply of protected...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Urban Wetlands: A Property Pricing Approach. Abstract approved: Richard M. Adams Wetlands play an

Creator:: Lin, Pei-Chien
Abstract:: The management options chosen by decision makers in managing wildlife and fisheries have different effects for diverse user groups. As a result, natural resource management agencies often seek information to evaluate the effects of alternative policies on the benefits provided to different constituencies. Over the past decade, economists have developed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: Measuring Recreational Fishing Benefits in a Multiple Site Framework: A Case Study of the

Creator:: Costello, Christopher J
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Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: estimating a demand function for visits to a particular fishing site, j (Loomis, 1988; McConnell, 1985): T

Creator:: Fried, Brett M.
Abstract:: Public agencies need information on the value of recreational activities to assist in managing fish and wildlife species. Over the past two decades economists have developed and applied techniques to measure the value of such non-marketed commodities. The contingent valuation method (CVM) is one technique used by economists to measure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Valuation Functions to Estimate Chanqes in the Quality of a Recreational Experience: Elk Huntinq in Oreqon

Creator:: Johnson, Neal S.
Abstract:: The growing demand for water in the arid regions of the West increases the need for optimal allocation of water among competing uses. An efficient allocation of water between instream and out-of-stream uses has been impeded by institutional constraints and the scarcity of information regarding instream flow benefits. The objectives...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: harvesting. Bockstael and McConnell (1981) give a concise explanation of how to derive benefit estimates

Creator:: Berrens, Robert Patrick, 1962-
Abstract:: Despite several decades of research developments, the survey-based contingent valuation (CV) method remains one of the most controversial topics in environmental economics. As the procedure matures and more applied studies are completed, there is increasing pressure to make the results policy relevant. This research is composed of three distinct yet...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: transferability of CV measures, with a focus on the dichotomous choice (DC) elicitation format. The first study

Creator:: Cerda, Arcadio Alberto
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on the economic efficiency of alternative habitat, streamfiow, and land use allocations within a major drainage of the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, productivity of present habitat and streamfiow conditions is evaluated with respect to anadromous fish species (chinook salmon and steelhead trout) in the John Day River Basin,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Arcadio A. Cerda for the degree of

Creator:: Taylor, Michael L. (Michael Lester), 1960-
Abstract:: Changes in the structure of the U.S. agricultural industry since World War II have transformed it into a highly productive component of the domestic economy. But these changes have not occurred without indirect costs. For example, the reliance on agricultural chemicals has produced environmental effects causing growing concern. In addition,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: War II have transformed it into a highly productive component of the domestic economy. But these

Creator:: Hong, Seonghoon
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Richard M. Adams Household recycling, as a means of reducing the amount of solid wastes disposed and

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