Heterogeneous preferences for water quality attributes: The Case of eutrophication in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 528-538

  Kosenius, Anna Kaisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Eutrophication; Latent class model; Multinomial logit model; Preference heterogeneity; Random parameters logit model

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; HETEROGENEITY; LOGIT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF FINLAND;

CHLOROPHYTA; FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS;

EID: 71949131542     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.08.030     Document Type: Article

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