Improving recreational demand modelling for environmental policy needs: A study of Mallorcan forest

• Autores: Angel Bujosa Bestard
• Directores de la Tesis: Antoni Riera Font (dir. tes.), Jaume Rosselló Nadal (codir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat de les Illes Balears ( España ) en 2009
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Eugeni Aguiló Pérez (presid.), Pablo Campos Palacín (secret.), Kenneth Mcconnell (voc.), Diego Azqueta Oyarzun (voc.), Robert L. Hicks (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Actividad económica
  • Geografía
    • Geografía económica
      • Geografía de las actividades económicas
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• Resumen

  • In the last fifty years, the Travel Cost Method (TCM) has evolved from simple zonal demand models to theoretically and econometrically sophisticated variants of the well-know discrete choice models. However, although the method is now a robust tool producing useful estimates of the recreational benefits accruing to users of natural areas, many problems have not yet been convincingly resolved within the literature. This thesis provides a rich insight to three of these topics in an attempt of overcoming the current limitations of the TCM and, at the same time, provide enhanced information contributing to the environmental policy debate. In this way, the measurement and representation of environmental diversity, the estimation of aggregate demands for large geographical areas and the consideration of preference heterogeneity among recreators have been investigated using a TCM application to forest recreation in the Island of Mallorca (Spain).