Understanding the distribution of economic benefits from improving coastal and marine ecosystems

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 584-585, Issue , 2017, Pages 29-40

  Pakalniete, Kristine ^a   Aigars, Juris ^b   Czajkowski, Mikołaj ^c   Strake, Solvita ^b   Zawojska, Ewa ^c   Hanley, Nick ^d  

^a AKTiiVS Ltd   (Latvia)

^b LATVIAN INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC ECOLOGY   (Latvia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coastal and marine water quality; Discrete choice experiment; Eutrophication; Good environmental status; Hybrid choice model; Invasive alien species; Observed preference heterogeneity; Socio demographic characteristics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EUTROPHICATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK PERCEPTION; WATER QUALITY;

CHOICE MODEL; DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; GOOD ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS; INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES; MARINE WATER QUALITY; PREFERENCE HETEROGENEITY; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; EUTROPHICATION; HETEROGENEITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL WATERS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EUTROPHICATION; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INVASIVE SPECIES; MALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VALIDATION STUDY; WATER QUALITY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LATVIA; SEA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LATVIA; OCEANS AND SEAS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 85010737660     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.097     Document Type: Article

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