Economic valuation of coastal lagoon environmental restoration: Mar Menor (SE Spain);Valoración económica de la restauración ambiental de lagunas costeras: El mar Menor (SE España)

Ciencias Marinas

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-190

  Perni, A ^a   Martinez Carrasco F ^a   Martínez Paz, Jm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coastal lagoon; Contingent valuation; Environmental benefits; Environmental restoration; Eutrophication

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COASTAL LAGOON; CONTINGENT VALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EUTROPHICATION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

MAR MENOR; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

EID: 79958025235     PISSN: 01853880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7773/cm.v37i2.1889     Document Type: Article

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