Using mixed logit models to derive individual-specific WTP estimates for landscape improvements under gri-environmental schemes: Evidence from the rural environment protection scheme in Ireland

Choice Experiments Informing Environmental Policy: A European Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 58-81

  Campbell, Danny ^a   Hutchinson, George W ^a   Scarpa, R ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 52949101196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781848441255.00010     Document Type: Chapter

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