Contingent Valuation of Yangtze Finless Porpoises in Poyang Lake, China

• Main Author: Dong, Yanyan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Environment.; Business.; Management science.; Science.; Statistics.; Emigration and immigration.; Psychology.; Environment, general.; Business and Management, general.; Migration.; Science, general.; Psychology, general.; Statistics, general.

Yangtze Finless Porpoises (YFPs), the only fresh-water adapted porpoises in the world, are endemic to the Yangtze River system, including Poyang Lake. Their population is rapidly decreasing, under threats from illegal fishing and overfishing, dredging, intensive shipping traffic and pollution from a...