The economic value of old growth trees in Israel

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 608-615

  Becker, Nir ^a   Freeman, Shirra ^b  

^a TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contingent Valuation; Existence value; Israel; Non use value; Old growth; Old trees

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; EXISTENCE VALUE; ISRAEL; NON-USE VALUE; OLD GROWTH; OLD TREES;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 70349969938     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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