Travel cost recreation demand models stem from a simple, but penetrating, insight.
Consumption of an outdoor recreation site's services requires the user to incur the costs of a …

An expanding literature addresses spatial dimensions related to the elicitation, estimation,
interpretation and aggregation of stated preference (SP) welfare measures. Recognizing the …

The first edition of this important work was the winner of the 2002 Publication of Enduring
Quality award by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The …

Non-market valuation has become a broadly accepted and widely practiced means of
measuring the economic values of the environment and natural resources. In this book, the …

This chapter provides an introduction to Travel Cost Models used to estimate recreation
demand and value recreational uses of the environment such as fishing, rock climbing …

Several major environmental statutes enacted in the 1970s designate resource
management agencies as trustees of the natural resources on behalf of the public, and …

This study examines perceptions and objective attribute measures in discrete choice models
of recreation site choice behavior. These forms of attribute measurement are examined in …

The authors are affiliated, respectively, with the John F. Kennedy School of Government and
the Department of Economics, Harvard University. The authors gratefully thank Andrew …

This article reviews published research that has focused on the recreational fishing site
choices made by anglers. A conceptual model for predicting fishing site choice is developed …

Stated choice methods have been part of the tool kit of environmental economists for some
time, but were limited to contingent valuation methods. Recently, other varieties of stated …