Materials-product chains: Theory and an application to zinc and PVC gutters

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-118

  Kandelaars, Patricia ^a   Van Bergh, Jeroen Den ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

economic modelling; environmental policy; materials balance; recycling; substitution

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; PRODUCTION; PUBLIC POLICY; RAW MATERIALS; RECYCLING; ZINC;

ECONOMIC MODELLING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MATERIALS BALANCE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

CLEANER PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GUTTERING; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS-PRODUCT CHAIN; RECYCLING;

EID: 0029659678     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00340655     Document Type: Article

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