Accounting for the market and non-market values of multifunctional outputs in evaluating water transfers to non-agricultural uses: Empirical evidence from Taiwanese rice production

Water Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 528-542

  Chang, Hung Hao ^a   Boisvert, Richard N ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Multifunctionality; Rice production; Taiwan; Water transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957579925     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2010.125     Document Type: Article

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