A review of 116 travel cost models finds that, of the studies that report their practice, about
half include depreciation in their calculation of vehicle costs and half do not, with none …

Protected areas offer unique opportunities for recreation, but the non-market nature of these
benefits presents a significant challenge when trying to represent value in the decision …

The mining activities in Sicily, over the years, have had a gradual decline until to their total
abandonment, determining a degradation process for the territory and the landscape. This …

Nei nuovi paradigmi che si vanno affermando per affrontare e risolvere la complessa
questione della tutela e gestione del paesaggio, la dimensione economico-estimativa …

The quality and quantity of valuable natural areas is assessed through the prism of benefits
derived from all the functions performed by them, among which tourist and recreational …

This paper applies the Kuhn–Tucker model to estimate recreation demand of parks in Sicily.
We estimate a fixed coefficient specification and a random coefficient specification to take …

In contemporary society, the force of human progress and the need for the conservation of
nature are often perceived as conflicting values, which causes obvious errors and …

The concept of the conservative protection of ecosystems is increasingly supplanted by a
global ecological vision, which considers a protected area as a place of contamination of …

This paper presents the actions taken in an ongoing research project to reveal tourists'
preferences and attitudes towards recreation activities taken in the Romanian national and …

The vision of protected areas as natural environments to be protected in a conservative
manner has been transformed into a vision of a place where knowledge and intervention …