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Valuing Natural Resource and Environmental Amenities: Can Economic Valuation Techniques Be Made Defensible: Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

James J. Opaluch*
Affiliation:
Department of Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881
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Abstract

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NAREA Invited Address
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Copyright © 1984 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This research was supported by the University of Rhode Island Sea Grant Program and by the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station. (AES Contribution No. 2236).

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