Incorporating environmental attitudes in discrete choice models: An exploration of the utility of the awareness of consequences scale

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 505, Issue , 2015, Pages 1100-1111

  Hoyos, David ^a,b   Mariel, Petr ^a   Hess, Stephane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b EKOPOL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice modelling; Discrete choice; Hybrid latent class (HLCM) model; Latent attitudes; Natura 2000; Valuation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; RESOURCE VALUATION;

CHOICE MODELLING; DISCRETE CHOICE; LATENT ATTITUDES; LATENT CLASS; NATURA 2000;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LAND USE PLANNING; POLICY MAKING; VALUATION;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; AWARENESS OF CONSEQUENCES SCALE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRETE CHOICE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPAIN; ENVIRONMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BASQUE COUNTRY [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

ATTITUDE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPAIN;

EID: 84909989430     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.10.066     Document Type: Article

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