Can contingent valuation be used to measure the in situ value of groundwater on the North China Plain?

Water Resources Management

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1735-1749

  Wei, Yongping ^a   Davidson, Brian ^a   Chen, Deli ^a   White, Robert ^a   Li, Baoguo ^b   Zhang, Jiaboa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Groundwater; Over exploitation; The North China Plain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; RIVERS;

CONTINGENT VALUATION; DEPRESSION ZONE; ECONOMIC-ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SUBSIDENCE;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; RIVERS;

CONTINGENT VALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUNDWATER EXPLORATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; POLICY MAKING; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 34548502956     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-006-9123-2     Document Type: Article

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