Bounds on the value of waterfalls: A case study from a hydropower project

Project Appraisal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 185-192

  Ranasinghe, Malik ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Environmental costs; Extended benefit cost analysis; Hydropower

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HYDROELECTRIC POWER;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0031420424     PISSN: 02688867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688867.1997.9727057     Document Type: Article

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