Heterogeneity in the WTP for recreational access: Distributional aspects

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1200-1219

  Campbell, Danny ^a   Vedel, Suzanne Elizabeth ^b   Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark ^b,c   Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Center for Macroecology Evolution and Climate   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; forests access; mixture of truncated normal distributions; random parameters logit

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HETEROGENEITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC ACCESS; RECREATIONAL FACILITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

DENMARK;

EID: 84901272955     PISSN: 09640568     EISSN: 13600559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2013.793173     Document Type: Article

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