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Informing Efficient Solid Waste Management to Improve Local Environmental Quality and Public Health in West Bengal, India

In: Choice Experiments in Developing Countries

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  • Sukanya Das
  • Ekin Birol
  • Rabindra N. Bhattacharya
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Choice Experiments in Developing Countries is an invaluable one-stop presentation of the best-practice case studies implementing the choice experiment method in developing countries. It highlights the theoretical and practical issues that should be taken into consideration when applying this method in a developing country context.

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  • Sukanya Das & Ekin Birol & Rabindra N. Bhattacharya, 2010. "Informing Efficient Solid Waste Management to Improve Local Environmental Quality and Public Health in West Bengal, India," Chapters, in: Jeff Bennett & Ekin Birol (ed.), Choice Experiments in Developing Countries, chapter 10, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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