Choice experiment provides a smart approach to deal with multidimensional changes since attributes are easily valued using a random utility model. Otherwise, there is empirical evidence that some respondents opt for the status quo regardless their preferences are. Such behaviour, well-known in...

A l'instar d'autres forêts méditerranéennes, la forêt corse est associée à la transhumance et au pastoralisme, deux activités qui ont beaucoup décliné. Les ventes de bois sont trop faibles pour compenser les dépenses de gestion, et les perspectives de développement de production...

This paper explores how people involved in recreational fishing mitigate shellfishrelated health risks. Since self-protection activities are possible to reduce the probability of illness, they provide the basis for empirical estimation of the value of risk change. The probability of illness...

This paper discusses in its first part usefulness and critical aspects of the transfer method. The second part deals with the validity issue of transferring point estimates of environmental benefits or complete benefit functions from one site to another according to the method of valuation used...

This paper examines the factors influencing farmers' participation in several agri-environmental schemes. A multinominal logit model is used to separate between participating and nonparticipating farmers. In addition this model allows to predict farmers participation in one measure as well as in...

The aim of this study is to understand households? behaviour regarding waste management. A contingent valuation survey was applied to 403 persons in Paris and Villeparisis. The mean willingness to pay for an improvement of the present situation is 240 francs. 75% of the sample prefer the less...

La pêche à pied est une activité récréative importante pour les zones littorales, notamment de l'Ouest de la France, mais mal connue. L'analyse des réactions des pêcheurs à pied face aux risques encourus par des changements de qualité des eaux permet de fonder une estimation de la...

This paper analyses the heterogeneity of compliance costs on farmers' choices to participate in agri-environment schemes. The theoretical distinction between fixed and variable costs is used to explain why factors that determine participation may differ from those which determine how much land...

[eng] The hedonic-price method is a major tool for assessing the value that households assign to the change in a natural amenity. Using transactions conducted in 2005 for coastal homes in western Brittany (France), we apply the method to estimate the value that buyers assign to the oceanside...