IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/agrerw/v46y2017i02p365-387_00.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Economic Analysis of Coastal Beach Safety Information-Seeking Behavior

Author

Listed:
  • Kaminski, Abigail
  • Bell, Kathleen P.
  • Noblet, Caroline L.
  • Evans, Keith S.

Abstract

We estimate a bivariate probit model using data from a survey of Maine and New Hampshire beachgoers to (i) assess the impact of exposure to and contact with beach waters on safety information-seeking behaviors, and (ii) compare information-seeking behaviors for surf conditions and water quality information. We find that individuals who engage in certain high-contact recreation activities (i.e., swimming, fishing, surfing) are more likely to seek out safety information and that some potential drivers of this behavior affect searches differently for surf conditions versus water quality information.

Suggested Citation

  • Kaminski, Abigail & Bell, Kathleen P. & Noblet, Caroline L. & Evans, Keith S., 2017. "An Economic Analysis of Coastal Beach Safety Information-Seeking Behavior," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(2), pages 365-387, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:agrerw:v:46:y:2017:i:02:p:365-387_00
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S106828051700017X/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Shintaro Endo & Ryo Shimada & Toshinori Ishikawa & Tsutomu Komine, 2022. "Can the visualization of rip currents prevent drowning accidents? Consideration of the effect of optimism bias," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 110(3), pages 2017-2033, February.
    2. A. Dana Ménard & Chris Houser & Robert W. Brander & Sarah Trimble & Alexandra Scaman, 2018. "The psychology of beach users: importance of confirmation bias, action, and intention to improving rip current safety," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 94(2), pages 953-973, November.
    3. Chris Houser & Brent Vlodarchyk & Phil Wernette, 2019. "Short communication: public interest in rip currents relative to other natural hazards: evidence from Google search data," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 97(3), pages 1395-1405, July.
    4. Jeoffrey Dehez & Sandrine Lyser, 2024. "How ocean beach recreational quality fits with safety issues? An analysis of risky behaviours in France," Post-Print hal-04384330, HAL.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:agrerw:v:46:y:2017:i:02:p:365-387_00. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/age .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.