Accounting for unobserved time-varying quality in recreation demand: An application to a Sonoran Desert wilderness

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Weber, Matthew A ^a   Mozumder, Pallab ^b   Berrens, Robert P ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FIXED EFFECTS; GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS; INSTREAM FLOWS; PANEL DATA; QUALITY CHANGE; SINGLE SITES; SONORAN DESERT; TIME VARYING; TRAVEL COSTS;

COST ACCOUNTING;

LANDFORMS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GRAPHICAL METHOD; INSTREAM FLOW; PANEL DATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WILDERNESS AREA;

SONORAN DESERT;

EID: 84861164827     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010237     Document Type: Article

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