Improving benefit transfer demand functions: a GIS approach.

The writers outline how they developed a model to anticipate the number of visitors to a recreational woodland in eastern England, Thetford Forest's Lynford Stag, by integrating data from several sources within a geographical information system (GIS). They undertook such a task because of the rarit...

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Published in:Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 51; pp. 373 - 390
Main Authors: Lovett, Andrew A., Brainard, Julii S., Bateman, Ian J.
Format: Article
Published: Academic Press Inc. December 1997
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          Lovett, Andrew A.
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        Geographic information systems
        Valuation of forests
        Contingent valuation
        Travel costs
        Economic demand
        Outdoor recreation
        Economics
        Forests & forestry
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          United Kingdom
          Geographic information systems
          Valuation of forests
          Contingent valuation
          Travel costs
          Economic demand
          Outdoor recreation
          Economics
          Forests & forestry
      ab: The writers outline how they developed a model to anticipate the number of visitors to a recreational woodland in eastern England, Thetford Forest's Lynford Stag, by integrating data from several sources within a geographical information system (GIS). They undertook such a task because of the rarity of previous efforts to include in a single arrivals model visitor demand functions that incorporate travel time, demographic, and substitute factors, on the development of which successful benefit transfer must necessarily rely. They classify variables into discrete groups that were gathered into comparatively homogeneous zones from which to determine visit rates. In addition, in order to evaluate the impact of each determinant, they apply Poisson regression techniques in a stepwise procedure. They point out that their investigation highlighted both substantial promise and some caveats in employing GIS for future benefit transfer work.
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