Accounting for substitution and spatial heterogeneity in a labelled choice experiment

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 181, Issue , 2016, Pages 289-297

  Lizin, S ^a   Brouwer, R ^b   Liekens, I ^c   Broeckx, S ^c  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distance decay; Labelled choice experiment; River restoration; Substitution; Value transfer

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; RESTORATION;

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; DISTANCE DECAY; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION; LABELED CHOICE EXPERIMENT; RIVER RESTORATION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STATED PREFERENCES; SUBSTITUTION EFFECT; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; VALUE TRANSFERS;

RIVERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VALUATION; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

ERROR; RIVER; STATISTICAL MODEL; WELFARE; BELGIUM; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; HUMAN; PUBLIC OPINION; RECREATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BELGIUM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC OPINION; RECREATION; RIVERS;

EID: 84976627584     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.06.038     Document Type: Article

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