Valuing Water Quality Monitoring: A Contingent Valuation Experiment Involving Hypothetical and Real Payments

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عنوان ژورنال: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

سال: 1998

ISSN: 1068-2805,2372-2614

DOI: 10.1017/s1068280500001672