Modeling the choice to switch from fuelwood to electricity implications for giant panda habitat conservation

Ecological Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 445-457

  An, Li ^a   Lupi, Frank ^a   Liu, Jianguo ^a   Linderman, Marc A ^a   Huang, Jinyan ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Discrete choice modeling; Electricity demand; Panda habitat; Random utility model; Stated preference; Wolong

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUELWOOD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MODELING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RURAL POPULATION;

CHINA;

AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; PANDA;

EID: 0036749180     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8009(02)00126-X     Document Type: Article

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