Using choice question formats to determine compensable values: The case of a landfill-siting process

Ecological Economics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 834-846

  Caplan, Arthur ^a   Grijalva, Therese ^b   Jackson Smith, Douglas ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Kaldor Hicks compensation test; Landfill siting

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION SYSTEM; LANDFILL; LOCAL PLANNING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SITE INVESTIGATION;

EID: 33846642137     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.02.015     Document Type: Article

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