Environmental attitudes, motivations, and contingent valuation of nonuse values: A case study involving endangered species

Ecological Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 93-107

  Kotchen, Matthew J ^a   Reiling, Stephen D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Environmental attitudes; Motivations; New Ecological Paradigm; NOAA Panel; Nonuse values

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; BIODIVERSITY; CONTINGENT VALUATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

EID: 0033981414     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8009(99)00069-5     Document Type: Article

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