Valuing the environmental, cultural and social impacts of open-cut coal mining in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 276-288

  Gillespie, Robert ^a   Bennett, Jeff ^b  

^a Gillespie Economics   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; choice modelling; coal mining; natural resource management; offsets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890082521     PISSN: 21606544     EISSN: 21606552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21606544.2012.714970     Document Type: Article

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