Do Japanese consumers care about sustainable fisheries? Evidence from an auction of ecolabelled seafood

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 263-280

  Uchida, Hirotsugu ^a   Roheim, Cathy A ^b   Wakamatsu, Hiroki ^c   Anderson, Christopher M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction experiment; Ecolabel; Information treatments; Japan; Seafood market; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; SALMONID; SEAFOOD; SUSTAINABILITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84898054416     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8489.12036     Document Type: Article

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