How to decide when experts disagree: Uncertainty-based choice rules in environmental policy

Land Economics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 492-507

  Woodward, Richard T ^a   Bishop, Richard C ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOICE THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELLING APPROACH; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 0031392331     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3147241     Document Type: Article

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