Sustainable forest management preferences of interest groups in three regions with different levels of industrial forestry: An exploratory attribute-based choice experiment

Environmental Management

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 117-133

  Berninger, Kati ^a   Adamowicz, Wiktor ^b   Kneeshaw, Daniel ^a   Messier, Christian ^a  

^a Centre d Étude de la Forêt   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental economics; Heterogeneity of preferences; Preference elicitation; Stated preference; Sustainable forest management; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; PREFERENCE ELICITATION; STATED PREFERENCES; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; TRADE OFF;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTS; PLANNING;

FORESTRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; PLANNING PRACTICE; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LOGGING; MALE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TAIGA;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; FORESTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; PLANNING;

EID: 77955550888     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9507-1     Document Type: Article

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