Modeling Environmental-Economic Phenomena at a Regional Level: Methodological Progress
Floor Brouwer
Peter Nijkamp
DOI: 10.2190/D359-NWN8-2RM4-PHUX
Abstract
The availability and nature of information are important issues in modeling environmental-economic phenomena. This article addresses three types of limitation that may characterize such issues, including 1) insufficient precision of information for drawing reliable quantitative conclusions regarding policy aspects, 2) the wide variety of means of data gathering with their corresponding varying levels of measurement, and 3) the multivariate nature of environmental-economic phenomena. Various appropriate methodological tools have been developed over the past years to deal with such limitations. The relevance of the approaches will be illustrated for a regional-economic and environmental analysis of recreation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.