Recreational demand for clean water: Evidence from geotagged photographs by visitors to lakes

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 76-81

  Keeler, Bonnie L ^a   Wood, Spencer A ^b,c   Polasky, Stephen ^a   Kling, Catherine ^d   Filstrup, Christopher T ^d   Downing, John A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLEANUP; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LAKE; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SOIL WATER; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER QUALITY;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926625557     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/140124     Document Type: Article

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