Valuing the local impacts of a large scale wind power establishment in northern Sweden: public and private preferences toward economic, environmental and sociocultural values

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1327-1345

  Ek, Kristina ^a   Matti, Simon ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

choice experiment; indigenous people; private; public; wind power; WTP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929837809     PISSN: 09640568     EISSN: 13600559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2014.922936     Document Type: Article

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