Assessing recreationists' economic benefits and their transferability to other sites

Leisure Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-142

  Oh, Chi Ok ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit transfer; Economic values; Stated preference choice method

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; POLICY MAKING; RECREATIONAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77949339239     PISSN: 01490400     EISSN: 15210588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490400903547120     Document Type: Article

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