Are the affluent prepared to pay for the planet? Explaining willingness to pay for public and quasi-private environmental goods in Switzerland

Population and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-65

  Meyer, Reto ^a   Liebe, Ulf ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affluence hypothesis; Environmental goods; Environmental justice; Subjective discount rate; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

DISCOUNT RATE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INCOME; PUBLIC GOODS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77956178984     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: 15737810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-010-0116-y     Document Type: Article

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