Dealing with scale and scope issues in stated preference experiments

The International Handbook on Non-Market Environmental Valuation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 254-272

  Rolfe, John ^a   Wang, Xuehong ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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