Low-income fishermen's willingness-to-pay for fisheries and watershed management: An application of choice experiment to Lake Tana, Ethiopia

Ecological Economics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 162-170

  Agimass, Fitalew ^a   Mekonnen, Alemu ^b  

^a BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Fishing control; Lake side plantation; Marginal willingness to pay; Payment for fishing permit; Valuation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC REFORM; FAMILY STRUCTURE; FISHERY REGULATION; FISHING COMMUNITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LOW INCOME POPULATION; WATERSHED; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ETHIOPIA; LAKE TANA;

EID: 80055055018     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.08.025     Document Type: Article

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