Estimating the benefits of maintaining adequate lake levels to homeowners using the hedonic property method

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Loomis, John ^a   Feldman, Marvin ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Resource Decisions   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonmarket valuation; Property values; Water quality; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LAKES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LAKE LEVELS; LAKEFRONT PROPERTIES;

WATER LEVELS;

HEDONIC ANALYSIS; LAKE LEVEL; PROPERTY MARKET; WATER QUALITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 1542651977     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001799     Document Type: Article

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