Benefit transfers: Are they a satisfactory input to benefit cost analysis? An airport noise nuisance case study

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 223-231

  Johnson, Kirk ^a   Button, Kenneth ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT NOISE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NOISE POLLUTION; PLANNING METHOD; POLLUTION MONITORING;

EID: 0031422572     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-9209(97)00010-2     Document Type: Article

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