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Seminar invitation
Choice Modelling Centre, University of Leeds
The Value of the English Outdoors: A Cross-Nested Logit Model of Recreation Demand for Greenspaces in England
Speaker: Brett Day, Professor of Environmental Economics, Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter
Friday 23nd September 2016, 1PM-2PM
Business School Maurice Keyworth SR (1.31)
Abstract
This paper reports on the development of a recreation demand model for outdoor greenspace in England. The research is remarkable particularly with regards to the scope of the undertaking, attempting to model recreation behaviour for an entire nation and across all types of greenspace. We report on the development of a detailed spatial dataset describing the location and characteristics of accessible greenspace across England and explain how the estimation dataset was derived by coupling this greenspace map with data from a very large survey of recreation activity amongst English residents. Moreover we describe the estimation of the recreation demand model in the form of a cross-nested logit model and demonstrate a prototype online tool developed from the model intended to aid government, businesses and communities in better understanding the benefits that are derived from accessible greenspace in England.
About Brett Day: Brett is an environmental economist working in the field of ecosystem services, the particular focus of his research being the development of methods and knowledge for the support of environmental decision-making. He received a PhD in Economics from University College London in 2004, took up a faculty position in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in 2005, and in 2015 joined the Department of Politics in Exeter University. Brett has published widely in the academic literature including outlets such as Science, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He also maintains close links with government and business, applying the methods of environmental economics to problems of environmental management in both public and private sectors.
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