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Workshop on Original Policy Research
By: Carolyn Fonseca, Ph.D. candidate, School of Public Policy
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Concerning Mail Survey Research: Results and Lessons of a Contingent Valuation Survey
Carolyn Fonseca is a Ph.D. candidate. She is a research associate for Dr. Doug Noonan working on an NSF funded project on environmental boundaries and scales. Her main concentration is Environmental Policy with a focus on environmental valuation. In addition, she grew up in Honduras and is bicultural, completely fluent in Spanish. Currently, Carolyn is collecting data for her dissertation via a mail survey. Her research focuses the effects of how distance to natural amenities affects individual environmental valuation.
For additional information or a copy of the paper, e-mail: doug.noonan@pubpolicy.gatech.edu.
Refreshments will be served.
All are welcome.
