Willingness to pay for unfamiliar public goods: Preserving cold-water coral in Norway

Ecological Economics

Volumn 112, Issue , 2015, Pages 53-67

  Aanesen, Margrethe ^a   Armstrong, Claire ^a   Czajkowski, Mikołaj ^b   Falk Petersen, Jannike ^a   Hanley, Nick ^c   Navrud, Ståle ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cold water coral; Discrete choice experiment; Natural resource management; Unfamiliar public good; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

COLD WATER; CORAL; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; NATURAL RESOURCE; PUBLIC GOODS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

NORWAY;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84922979080     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.02.007     Document Type: Article

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