The discrete choice experiment approach to environmental contingent valuation

Handbook of Choice Modelling

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 202-235

  Carson, Richard T ^a,b   Czajkowski, Mikołaj ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781781003152.00015     Document Type: Chapter

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