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Filtering by: Creator Bregenzer, Neil S. Non-Academic Affiliation Oregon State University. Graduate School

An analysis of alternative methods of nonmarket valuation : applications to whitewater recreation

Creator:

Bregenzer, Neil S.

Abstract:

This study analyzes and compares alternative methods of valuing nonmarket goods. Using a 1985 study of Rogue River non-commercial whitewater recreationists, benefit estimates of recreational use for this lottery-rationed river are derived using the zonal travel cost method (TCM) and the contingent valuation method (CVM). Two different techniques of the...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis