...-choice studies by using two-staged count data models for recreation demand. Differences in preference structures and welfare estimates are tested assuming both common and different data generating processes for the RP and SP data. Outdoor recreation has been mainly modelled using the travel cost method...

... Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå Licensed re-use rights only Q26 Q51 Contingent behaviour Travel cost method Joint estimation Quality change Forest recreation demand Count data This study combines contingent behaviour (CB) data...

...Ville Ovaskainen; Marjo Neuvonen; Eija Pouta As the price of recreational visits is unobservable and commonly represented by researcher-assigned travel cost estimates, welfare change estimates generated by the travel cost method are ordinally measurable ( Randall, 1994) . For a potential solution...

...: angel.bujosa@uib.es (A. Bujosa Bestard). 14 07 2008 25 11 2009 © 2009 Elsevier GmbH 2009 Elsevier GmbH Licensed re-use rights only Travel cost method Aggregate value Discrete-count linked model Recreation demand Forests C25 Q23 Q26 Q51 Nowadays, although none...

... and Moran, 1996 ; Gonzalez-Caban et al., 2003 ; Troy and Wilson, 2006). This is a promising innovation because valuation methods traditionally have limited spatial elements. ¹ For example, the travel cost method might be used to determine the value of access to a backcountry trailhead...

...Marianne Zandersen; Tol Richard S.J. This paper presents a meta-analysis of forest recreation in Europe based on studies that have applied the travel cost method covering 26 studies in nine countries since 1979. We conduct the meta-regression with an increasing number of variables where level I...

... and Lubowski values are derived from ethno-botanical surveys and anthropological-based studies. In reviewing the literature concerning special forest products, it is notable that only one study employs a recreation demand or travel cost method (Markstrom and Donnelly, 1988) to derive value estimates...

... support for the National Fire Plan in terms of fire prevention and suppression. © 2004 Elsevier GmbH 2004 Elsevier GmbH Licensed re-use rights only Recreation demand; Travel cost method Wildfire Prescribed fire National Fire Plan Q 260 A line graph comparing the growth...

.... B. , 1991 . Confidence Intervals for Welfare Measures with Application to a Problem of Truncated Counts . The Review of Economics and Statistics , LXXIII (2), 370 – 373 . Dobbs , I. M. , 1993 . Adjusting for Sample Selection Bias in the Individual Travel Cost Method...

... are not readily available. This paper estimates the demand for and the economic value of a popular nontimber resource, recreational moose hunting in Ontario, using the travel cost method. In view of censored and truncated nature of moose hunting trips data and the bag limit, we used four alternative count data...