Public funding of environmental amenities: Contingent choices using new taxes or existing revenues for coastal land conservation

Land Economics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-67

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; CONSERVATION; ECONOMICS; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EID: 30944449947     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.82.1.56     Document Type: Article

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