Assessing development options in mining communities using stated preference techniques

Resources Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 255-264

  Ivanova, Galina ^a   Rolfe, John ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Choice Behaviour; Choice Modelling; Community development; Housing; Mining town; Workcamp

Indexed keywords

CHOICE BEHAVIOUR; CHOICE MODELLING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; MINING TOWN; WORKCAMP;

EXPERIMENTS;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; HOUSING; MINING; NUMERICAL MODEL; WORKPLACE;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 79961032494     PISSN: 03014207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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