Accommodating indigenous cultural heritage values in resource assessment: Cape York Peninsula and the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Ecological Economics

Volumn 61, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 334-344

  Venn, Tyron J ^a   Quiggin, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benefit cost analysis; Goal programming; Multiple criteria analysis; Non market valuation

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; VALUATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CAPE YORK PENINSULA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 33847384207     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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