Take your swimsuit along: The value of improving urban bathing sites in the metropolitan area of Berlin

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 107-124

  Meyerhoff, Jürgen ^a   Dehnhardt, Alexandra ^a   Hartje, Volkmar ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bathing sites; Choice experiments; Latent class; Mixed logit; Urban recreation

Indexed keywords

BATHING WATER; BEACH; LOGIT ANALYSIS; METROPOLITAN AREA; RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 74349089178     PISSN: 09640568     EISSN: 13600559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09640560903399863     Document Type: Article

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