The Economic Value of Viewing Migratory Shorebirds on the Delaware Bay: An Application of the Single Site Travel Cost Model Using On-Site Data

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 435-444

  Edwards, Peter E T ^a,b   Parsons, George R ^c   Myers, Kelley H ^c  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b IM Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

economic value; endogenous stratification; onsite sampling; recreational birding; shorebird migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859097029     PISSN: 10871209     EISSN: 1533158X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2011.608180     Document Type: Article

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