Rober Martínez-Espiñeira's publications.


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"Explanatory Factors of Urban Water Leakage Rates in Southern Spain", with Francisco González-Gómez, María A. García-Valíñas, and Miguel A. García-Rubio, forthcoming in Utiliities Policy, 2012

"Environmental Kuznets curves for bird abundance in Canada: an examination of alternative regression models using panel data" with Van Lantz, International Journal  of Ecological Economics & Statistics (IJEES), 27(4), 1-24, 2012

"Alternative approaches to dealing with respondent uncertainty in contingent valuation: A comparative analysis", with Nikita Lyssenko, Journal of Environmental Management, 93(1) 130-139, 2012. 

            “Leisure and the Opportunity Cost of Travel Time in Recreation Demand Analysis” with Joe Amoako-Tuffour, forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Economics, 15(1), 25-49. 

  "Is the pricing of urban water services justifiably perceived as unequal among Spanish cities?", with Francisco González-Gómez, María de los Ángeles García-Valiñas, International Journal of Water Resources Development, 28(1), 107-121, 2012

"Respondent uncertainty in contingent valuation: The case of whale conservation in Newfoundland and Labrador", with Nikita Lyssenko, Applied Economics, 44(15), 1911-1930, 2012

"Correcting for the endogeneity of pro-environment behavioral choices in contingent valuation", with Nikita Lyssenko, Ecological Economics, 70(8), 1435-1439, 2011

"Affordability of residential water tariffs: alternative measurement and explanatory factors in Southern Spain" with María Ángeles García-Valiñas and Francisco González-Gómez, Journal of Environmental Management, 91(12), 2696-2706, 2010

“Valuation of the Benefits of Wildlife Tourism in Remote Protected Areas: The Case of Gros Morne” in Angus O'Reilly and Doran Murphy (Eds.) National Parks: Biodiversity, Conservation and Tourism, Nova Publishers, New York, Ch. 11, 181-199, 2010


 “Measuring water affordability: a proposal for urban centers in developed countries”, with María de los Ángeles García-Valiñas, and Francisco González-Gómez, International Journal of Water Resources Development, 26(3), 441-458, September 2010

“Attitudes toward wildlife habitat preservation in the management of private woodlots in Cape Breton” with Lars Hallstrom, Human Dimensions of Wildlife 14(5), 265-277, 2009

“Multi-destination and multi-purpose trip effects in the analysis of the demand for trips to a remote recreational site” with Joe Amoako-Tuffour, Environmental Management, 43(6) 1146-1161, 2009.

 

“The effect of environmental change and price policies on livelihoods in tropical agroforestry systems” with Unai Pascual, Journal of International Development, 21(3) 433–446, 2009.

 

 “Does private management of water supply services really increase prices? An empirical analysis in Spain” with Maria Ángeles García-Valiñas and Francisco González Gómez, Urban Studies, 46(4) 923–945, 2009. 


“Comparing recreation benefits from on-site versus household surveys in count data travel cost demand models with overdispersion”, with John. B. Loomis, Joe Amoako-Tuffour and Joseph Hilbe, Tourism Economics, 14(3), pp. 567-576, 2008


"Testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis with bird populations as habitat-specific environmental indicators: evidence from Canada", with Van Lantz, Conservation Biology 22(2), 428-438, 2008

"Effect on Recreation Benefit Estimates from Correcting for On-Site Sampling Biases and Heterogeneous Trip Overdispersion in Count Data Recreation Demand Models", with Joseph Hilbe, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods 7(1), 331-345, 2008.

“Recreation Demand Analysis under Truncation, Overdispersion, and Endogenous Stratification: An Application to Gros Morne National Park" with Joe Amoako-Tuffour, Journal of Environmental Management, 88(4), 1320-1332, 2008

"An Estimation of Residential Water Demand Using Co-Integration and Error Correction Techniques" Journal of Applied Economics 10(1), 161-184, 2007

"‘Adopt a Hypothetical Pup’: A Count Data Approach to the Valuation of Wildlife" Environmental and Resource Economics 37(2), 335-360, 2007

Pascual, U. and Martínez-Espiñeira, R. Poverty and environmental degradation under trade liberalization: searching for second-best policy options. Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales, 6(12), 121-144, 2006

Martínez-Espiñeira, R., J. Amoako-Tuffour, and J. M. Hilbe (2006), Travel cost demand model based river recreation benefit estimates with on-site and household surveys: Comparative results and a correction procedure—Reevaluation, Water Resources Research, 42, W10418, doi:10.1029/2005WR004798

“Análisis de la demanda de agua en los abastecimientos urbanos: el caso residencial.” (2006) with Fernando Arbués-Gracia and María Ángeles García-Valiñas (PI’s contribution: 30%) invited chapter contribution for collective volume edited within the series Ecos of the Consejo General de Economistas: Las cuentas económicas del agua: una propuesta metodológica para la DMA desde la perspectiva de la teoría de la renta total sustentable.

“Public attitudes towards lethal coyote control” Human Dimensions of Wildlife 11(2), 89-100, 2006

"A Box-Cox double-hurdle model of wildlife valuation: the citizen’s perspective" Ecological Economics 58(1), 192-208, 2006.

“Is all domestic water consumption sensitive to price control?" with Celine Nauges, Applied Economics
36 (15) 1697-1703, 2004

"Price Specification Issues under Block Tariffs: A Spanish Case-Study" Water Policy, 5 (3) 237-256; 2003

"Estimating Water Demand under Increasing Block Tariffs Using Aggregate Data and Proportions of Users per Block" (abstract) Environmental and Resource Economics 26 (1) 5-23; 2003

"Estimation of Residential Water Demand: A State of the Art Review", with Fernando Arbués-Gracia and María Ángeles García-Valiñas, in The Journal of Socio-Economics 32(1), 81-102, 2003 (Reprinted in Economics of Water Resources by R. Quentin Grafton (Ed.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. 2009.)

"Residential Water Demand in the Northwest of Spain"  (abstract) Environmental and Resource Economics 21(2) 161-187, 2002.

Other working papers 

Contact me:

rmartinezesp at mun.ca

Roberto Martínez-Espiñeira

Department of Economics
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St John’s

Newfoundland and Labrador A1A 5S7
CANADA

Tel:    1-709-737-3676
FAX: 1-709-737-2094

 



  

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