Market participation and willingness to pay for environmentally certified products

Forest Science

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 632-641

  Jensen, Kim ^a   Jakus, Paul M ^b   English, Burton ^a   Menard, Jamey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Logistic models; Market segments

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; QUALITY CONTROL;

DEMOGRAPHY;

FORESTRY;

QUERCUS;

EID: 0042927969     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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