Open space and public access: A contingent choice application to coastal preservation

Land Economics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 477-495

  McGonagle, Michael P ^a   Swallow, Stephen K ^b  

^a Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CONTINGENT VALUATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 23744441539     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.81.4.477     Document Type: Article

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