Neglected features of the Safe Minimum Standard: Socio-economic and institutional dimensions

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 439-442

  Seidl, Irmi ^a,b   Tisdell, Clem A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Game theory; Irreversibility; Resource conservation; Safe minimum standard; Social choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001195279     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760110081553     Document Type: Article

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