Food miles or carbon emissions? Exploring labelling preference for food transport footprint with a stated choice study

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 465-482

  Caputo, Vincenzina ^a   Nayga, Rodolfo M ^b   Scarpa, Riccardo ^c,d  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attribute nonattendance; Choice experiment; Latent class analysis; Transport footprint; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CONTINGENT VALUATION; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; FOOD; GRAPHICAL METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSPORTATION MODE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84885838884     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8489.12014     Document Type: Article

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