Identifying individual discount rates and valuing public open space with stated-preference models

Land Economics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 209-224

  Kovacs, Kent F ^a   Larson, Douglas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; DISCOUNT RATE; MODELING; OPEN SPACE; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN AREA;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; PORTLAND [OREGON]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44649173708     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.84.2.209     Document Type: Article

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