What to Value and How? Ecological Indicator Choices in Stated Preference Valuation

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-25

  Zhao, Minjuan ^a   Johnston, Robert J ^b   Schultz, Eric T ^c  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Choice modeling; Ecological indicators; Ecosystem service; River restoration; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; RESTORATION; SURVEYS;

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CHOICE MODEL; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; RIVER RESTORATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ECOLOGY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SURVEY DESIGN; VALUATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883264959     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-013-9636-0     Document Type: Article

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