Willingness to pay for drinking water quality improvement and the influence of social capital

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-80

  Polyzou, E ^a   Jones, N ^a   Evangelinos, K I ^a   Halvadakis, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Drinking water quality; Greece; Protestresponses; Social capital; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650980458     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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