Navigating benefit transfer for salmon improvements in the Western US

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Weber, Matthew A ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Non use value; Preference calibration; Salmon; Structural benefit transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008625951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00074     Document Type: Article

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