Valuing grassland restoration: Proximity to substitutes and trade-offs among conservation attributes

Land Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 237-259

  Dissanayake, Sahan T M ^a,b,c   Ando, Amy W ^a,b,c  

^a Colby College   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; GRASSLAND; POPULATION DENSITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84896905799     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.90.2.237     Document Type: Article

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