Valuation of national park system visitation: The efficient use of count data models, meta-analysis, and secondary visitor survey data

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 683-698

  Neher, Christopher ^a   Duffield, John ^a   Patterson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits transfer; Count data model; Meta regression Model; National park service; Recreational visitation; Travel cost; Valuation; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

BENEFITS TRANSFER; COUNT DATA MODELING; NATIONAL PARK SERVICE; RECREATIONAL VISITATION; TRAVEL COSTS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE VALUATION; SURVEYS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

COST; META-ANALYSIS; NATIONAL PARK; PANEL DATA; PARK MANAGEMENT; RECREATIONAL MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAVEL DEMAND; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COST; COUNT DATA MODEL; FEE; METAREGRESSION ANALYSIS MODEL; NATIONAL PARK; RECREATION; SAMPLING; SECONDARY VISITOR SURVEY DATA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAVEL; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; RECREATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883445574     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0080-2     Document Type: Article

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