Evaluating benefit transfer for Canadian water quality improvements using US/Canada metadata: An application of international meta-analysis

The International Handbook on Non-Market Environmental Valuation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 353-384

  Thomassin, Paul ^a   Johnston, Robert ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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