Estimating the public preferences for solid waste management programmes using choice experiments in Macao

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 301-309

  Jin, Jianjun ^a   Wang, Zhishi ^a   Ran, Shenghong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Economic valuation; Macao: wmr 834 1; Solid waste management

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECONOMICS; FEES AND CHARGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CHOICE EXPERIMENT; CONDITIONAL MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODELS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; GARBAGE FEES; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE SEGREGATION;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DATA REDUCTION; ECONOMICS; FEES AND CHARGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

LOGIT ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MACAO; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MACAU;

EID: 33746150036     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X06064977     Document Type: Article

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