The contingent valuation method estimates individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for non-market environmental assets via preferences elicited by either open-ended or dichotomous choice questions. Traditional analysis of such data has tended to ignore zero WTP values, or treat them in an unsatisfactor
Economic valuation of urban forest benefits in Finland
✍ Scribed by L. Tyrväinen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 204 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-4797
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