To help the civil servants in both central and local governments in Taiwan operating administrative works smoothly under a new digitalized system launched in 1994, a series of courses related to information technology were offered free to them annually by the central governments. However, due to the budget deficit in recent years, the government is considering decreasing or completely canceling...

Abstract Ecosystem services are among the environmental goods that not directly included in market mechanism, hindering their integration framework of cost-benefit analysis. To fill this gap, valuation techniques can provide useful insights as regards economic value ecosystems, facilitating decision-making processes. The present work values an extremely sensitive and protected ecosystem Souther...

objective: the main objective of this research was the economic valuation of public library services using the contingent valuation. although, estimating the average willingness to pay for public library service, demographics on the willingness to pay, and economic valuation and pricing public library services were other objectives that investigated in this study. methodology: explanatory varia...

Sarawak is well known with its Terubok which scientifically as Tropical shad Tenualosa. In Sarawak, there are two types of Tenualosa that found namely toli and macura. However, due to the overexploitation heavy fishing terubok, total catch landing has been declining. Therefore, main objective this study investigate potential establishing sustainable terubok fisheries in order sustain population...

JOHN QUIGGIN Department of Economics James Cook University People express concern about the possible extinction of animal species which they will never see, about damage to wilderness areas they will never visit, and so on. Such concerns are often interpreted by economists in terms of ‘existence’ or ‘passive use’ values. Three views have been proposed regarding the appropriate way of dealing wi...

ed and Indexed in: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Centre for the Economics and Management of Aquatic Resources (CEMARE), Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth, Locksway Road, Portsmouth PO4 8JF, United Kingdom. Copyright © University of Portsmouth, 2001 All rights reserved. No part of this paper may be reproduced, stored in a retrievable system or transmitted in any form b...

Solutions for mitigating and reducing environmental pollution are important priorities many developed developing countries. This study was conducted to better understand the degree which inner-city citizens foreigners perceive air respond it, particularly how much they willingly contribute improving quality in Vietnam, a lower-middle-income nation Southeast Asia. During mid-December 2019, strat...

Abstract With the continuous development of urbanisation, economic level rural areas has improved greatly. However, due to industry and leap in economy, environment suffered unprecedented damage. Taking Zhejiang Province as an example, this paper explores environmental pollution control path under government intervention mechanism. Firstly, it analyses functions control. Then, taking Huzhou emp...

Contingent Valuation of Early Intervention Programs for Handicapped Children Colette M. Escobar, Master of Science Utah State University, 1986 Major Professor: Dr. John E. Keith Department: Economics vi Early intervention programs for handicapped preschool ch ildren may have l ong-term impli cations for the chi ldren and their families. Economic eva luations of these programs have been conducte...