Assessing the changing effects of forest harvesting on nature-based tourism: a case of sport-fishing tourism in Ontario, Canada

Forest harvesting can negatively affect nature-based tourism operations. Using observable and interpretable indicators of operating tourism establishments and associated prices charged for fishing packages, we illustrate how one can assess these forest harvesting effects. From a case of floatplane-accessible tourism in Ontario, Canada, we found no evidence to implicate recent (less than 10 years) forest harvests in decisions by tourism operators to close their establishments between 2000 and 2010. Using a hedonic price analysis, we found a significantly reduced effect of forest harvests on prices charged by these tourism operators between 2000 and 2010. These conclusions were robust to different specifications of forest harvesting. On the one hand, the results suggest that changes to forest management planning, policies, and practices in Ontario appear to have mitigated the negative effects from forest harvesting on nature-based tourism. On the other hand, the results show a method that other researchers and policy analysts can adopt to monitor the changing effects of forest management on economic activities such as nature-based tourism.

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Hedonic Price Analysis on Mobile Phone Market

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.418-420.2200 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 418-420 ◽

pp. 2200-2205

Author(s):

Xiao Hong Zhang ◽

Li You Fu ◽

Hang Zhang

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Real Life ◽

Hedonic Price ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Hedonic Price Analysis ◽

Heterogeneous Goods ◽

Real Life Situation ◽

Price Analysis ◽

Negative Factors

Using collected 190 samples, this paper studied Chinese mobile phone market with hedonic price analysis. Through calculating hedonic price of heterogeneous goods, this paper summed up the positive and negative factors that influence the price of mobile phones. This paper found that network type and GPS are negative effects on mobile phones’ prices, which is little different from the real life situation; And the price will become more and more cheaper with time; In addition, the price of mobile phones with additional features is correspondingly higher.

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Forest harvesting, resource-based tourism, and remoteness: an analysis of northern Ontario's sport fishing tourism

Canadian Journal of Forest Research ◽

10.1139/x04-184 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 401-409 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Len M Hunt ◽

Peter Boxall ◽

Jeffrey Englin ◽

Wolfgang Haider

Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Planning Process ◽

Forest Harvesting ◽

Hedonic Pricing ◽

Sport Fishing ◽

Management Planning ◽

Revenue Generation ◽

Forest Management Planning ◽

Management Schemes ◽

The Impact

This paper assesses the impact that the routine application of Ontario's forest management planning process has on the revenue generation of sport fishing tourism sites. The analysis employs a hedonic pricing model to examine jointly these effects on revenue for three tourism experiences. These tourism experiences offer different degrees of remoteness, and as a consequence, require different levels of effort and cost to visit. Modelling the relationship between price and attributes of sites such as remoteness permits the analysis to forecast the revenue generation potential of sport fishing tourism sites under a range of forest management schemes. The results show that the extent of forest harvesting had no statistical relationship with prices charged for fishing packages at road-, boat-, or train-accessible sites and a negative but small impact on the prices charged for fishing packages at sites accessible by float plane.

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Player Pricing and Valuation of Cricketing Attributes: Exploring the IPL Twenty20 Vision

Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers ◽

10.1177/0256090920090202 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 15-24 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Siddhartha K Rastogi ◽

Satish Y Deodhar

Keyword(s):

Fixed Effects ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Hedonic Price ◽

Hedonic Price Analysis ◽

Batting Average ◽

Premier League ◽

Bid Price ◽

Bid Prices ◽

The One ◽

Price Analysis

The Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 cricket tournament, was launched in April 2008 by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Modelled along the lines of the National Basketball Association (NBA) of USA and the English Premier League of England, the IPL franchisee rights of the participating eight teams were sold through competitive bidding. Importantly, the franchisee team owners bid for the services of cricketers for a total of US$ 42 million. However, not much is known about the process of valuation of the cricketers' services. Given the data on final bid prices, cricketing attributes of the players, and other relevant information, this paper tries to understand which attributes seem to be important and what could be their relative valuations. It employs the bid and offer curve concept of hedonic price analysis and econometrically establish a relation between IPL-2008 final bid prices and the player attributes. Following are the major observations: Non-cricketing attributes such as fame and popularity are rewarded with a very high premium; the premium depends upon the associated glamour or the controversy surrounding the player. Franchisee fixed effects in the final bid price of the players are significant for two teams — Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians. On an average, Indian players command a premium of about US$ 2,57,557. Among the cricketing attributes, batting average in Twenty20, batting strike rate in One Day Internationals, and number of half-centuries, stumpings, and wickets taken in all forms of the game are important determinants of the final bid price. Increase in the batting average for Twenty20 matches by a run raises the final bid price by US$ 5,430. Increase in the One Day International batting strike rate by a run raises the final bid price by US$ 4,709. An additional half-century, an additional stumping, and an additional wicket taken in any form of the game raises the final bid price by US$ 2,762, US$ 2,767, and US$ 335 respectively. Ceteris paribus, a player loses out US$ 28,518 in the final bid price by being older by a year relative to other players. No significant premium is attached to assigning an ICON status to a player. With the commencement of the second IPL season, it is hoped that the analysis carried out in this study would facilitate a better understanding of the player price formation and underscore the predictive value of such data-driven analysis. The study can also be used to create a payment benchmark in other forms of the game such as Test Cricket, and could be extended to other sports as well.

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Embedding science and innovation in forest management: Recent experiences at Millar Western in west-central Alberta

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc84301-3 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 84 (3) ◽

pp. 301-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Laird Van Damme ◽

Peter N Duinker ◽

Dennis Quintilio

Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Planning Process ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Fire Risk ◽

Management Plan ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Management Planning ◽

Forest Management Planning ◽

Forest Management Plan ◽

Science Innovation

Research from scientists embedded within Millar Western’s forest management planning process over the last 14 years was enabled by strong corporate leadership, cooperation by Alberta’s Ministry of Sustainable Resource Development, and funding by the Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta. Results of the supporting research are described in the articles that follow and are important contributions to Canada’s commitment to sustainable forest management (SFM). The process is as noteworthy as the results and is the subject of this paper. When scientists and practitioners work closely together in developing a forest management plan, as they have in this case, there is a much greater opportunity for science-based emergent strategies to be created and applied through the personal interactions among scientists and practitioners. For example, input from the science-based collaborators influenced the harvest schedule in the detailed forest management plan to minimize negative effects on water flow, biodiversity and fire risk. This approach to SFM is one of many being developed in Alberta. The diversity of input has clear benefits, not the least of which is the maintenance of innovation and intellectual enterprise in support of SFM. Key words: forest management planning, forest science, innovation, Alberta, biodiversity, timber supply, guidelines

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Modeling paludification and fire impacts on the forest productivity of a managed landscape using valuable indicators: the example of the Clay Belt

Canadian Journal of Forest Research ◽

10.1139/cjfr-2020-0386 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alexis Schab ◽

Sylvie Gauthier ◽

Jesus Pascual Puigdevall ◽

Osvaldo Valeria ◽

Yves Bergeron ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Forest Productivity ◽

Forest Harvesting ◽

Dynamics Model ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Management Planning ◽

Regeneration Failure ◽

Closed Forest ◽

The Cost

In areas sensitive to forest management, paludification and successive disturbances in boreal forest can affect forest regeneration negatively, sometimes resulting in stand opening. As these negative effects on forest productivity are not fully considered in strategic management planning, a new landscape dynamics model integrating fire, paludification, forest harvesting, and regeneration failure was used to assess these impacts in a large forest management unit (10,828 km2) of northwestern Québec. Two reforestation scenarios, one based on the accessibility of the areas to be treated and the other aimed at restoring all burned and paludified areas to production were compared to one with no intervention. The success of the scenarios was evaluated using the predicted volume harvested, the proportion of closed or opened stands areas, an indicator of productivity; the cost of reforestation and the royalties associated with harvesting. Harvesting the paludified areas without reforesting would lead to a sharp increase in open stands areas (+17.3%). The strategy of reforesting accessible areas is the most promising for achieving sustainable forest management targets. The monitoring of maximum potential volume (MPV) and the closed forest area as indicators of landscape productivity provides the ability to anticipate problems earlier than with the conventional forest planning indicators.

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