Valuation of Agriculture's Multi-site Environmental Impacts: An Application to Pheasant Hunting

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

an application of fuzzy logic for car insurance underwriting

در ایران بیمه خودرو سهم بزرگی در صنعت بیمه دارد. تعیین حق بیمه مناسب و عادلانه نیازمند طبقه بندی خریداران بیمه نامه براساس خطرات احتمالی آنها است. عوامل ریسکی فراوانی می تواند بر این قیمت گذاری تاثیر بگذارد. طبقه بندی و تعیین میزان تاثیر گذاری هر عامل ریسکی بر قیمت گذاری بیمه خودرو پیچیدگی خاصی دارد. در این پایان نامه سعی در ارائه راهی جدید برای طبقه بندی عوامل ریسکی با استفاده از اصول و روش ها...

Citizens' juries: an aid to environmental valuation?

Survey techniques such as contingent valuation have been used extensively by environmental economists to develop an understanding of consumer preferences for environmental goods. On the basis of such techniques, recommendations have been formulated in relation to environmental policy. However, the exposure of weaknesses in this method has led economists to look to other informationgathering app...

Modelling Health Impacts of Air Pollution and Their Valuation: an Application to Santiago, Chile

This chapter describes how estimates of air pollution emissions are transformed into ambient concentration of pollution, further translated into exposure and health impacts on a population, and finally expressed in damages. Different trade and environmental policy menus lead to different levels of pollution emissions and income. For each menu the emissions levels translate into specific mortali...

Modeling Quality as a Latent Variable: An Application to Environmental Valuation

To date, the valuation of environmental quality has been severely hampered by our ability to actually measure quality. Often environmental resources are described by exhaustive lists of attributes. Unfortunately, high multicollinearity among attributes leads to serious econometric problems. The use of too few attributes, on the other hand, leads to underspecification of the valuation model. Fin...