The aggregation of climate change damages: A welfare theoretic approach

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 249-266

  Fankhauser, Samuel ^a   Tol, Richard S J ^b   Pearce, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Benefit cost analysis; Climate change impacts; Valuation; Welfare economics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ESTIMATION;

BENEFIT COST ANALYSIS; WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT (WTA) CONCEPT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY (WTP) CONCEPT;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC VALUE; ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 0031259716     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026420425961     Document Type: Article

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