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A Comparison of Extra Market Benefit Evaluation Techniques: Comment
Author(s) -
Kooten G. C. Van
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
canadian journal of agricultural economics/revue canadienne d'agroeconomie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1744-7976
pISSN - 0008-3976
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7976.1984.tb02029.x
Subject(s) - point (geometry) , recreation , fishing , econometrics , economics , operations research , actuarial science , computer science , engineering , mathematics , political science , law , geometry
In the November 1983 issue of this Journal, Adamowicz and Phillips (hereafter ASP) compare several methods for evaluating the recreational benefits of fishing in Alberta. Unfortunately, their analysis exhibits a number of theoretical and methodological errors which reflect upon the usefulness of their empirical results. I point out four major problems.