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Measuring public preferences for the conservation of the traditional farm landscape
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)
This paper explores individuals' attitudes towards the traditional farm landscape. Results from a Generalised Tobit Interval model of willingness to pay for traditional farm landscape protection suggest that individuals ...
Personal versus societal preferences in contingent valuation assessments
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-12)
Contingent valuation has been used extensively in estimating the value of
environmental goods. One criticism of this approach, however, is that respondents in
referendum-style contingent valuation surveys may express ...
A choice experiment versus a contingent valuation approach to agri-environmental policy valuation
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)
The non-market value accruing from an agri-environmental scheme can be examined by assessing the public's willingness to pay for the policy outputs as a whole or by modelling the preferences of society for the component ...
The spatial relationship between economic activity and river water quality
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-12)
This paper, using Ireland as a case study, examines the relationship between economic
activities and river water quality. The stipulation from the EU water framework
directive (WFD) that all surface waters in the EU must ...