A crowdsourced valuation of recreational ecosystem services using social media data: An application to a tropical wetland in India

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 642, Issue , 2018, Pages 356-365

  Sinclair, Michael ^a   Ghermandi, Andrea ^a   Sheela, Albert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Kerala State Pollution Control Board   (India)

Author keywords

Economic valuation; Geotagged photographs; Ramsar wetland; Recreational ecosystem services; Social media; Travel cost method

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; LAKES; LINEAR REGRESSION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STORMS; TROPICS; WATER QUALITY;

ECONOMIC VALUATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GEOTAGGED PHOTOGRAPH; ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIAS; RAMSAR WETLAND; RECREATIONAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; TRAVEL COST METHOD; TROPICAL WETLAND;

WETLANDS;

FRESH WATER;

CROWDSOURCING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GIS; PHOTOGRAPH; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRAVEL DEMAND; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VALUATION; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; CROWDSOURCING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDIAN; KERALA; LAGOON; LAKE; LAND USE; METADATA; NATIONAL PARK; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLLUTION CONTROL; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RECREATIONAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; RIVER; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRAVEL; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND; WILDLIFE; CONSUMER; FISHERY; RECREATION;

INDIA; KERALA; VEMBANAD LAKE;

EID: 85048269384     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.056     Document Type: Article

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