The structure of an environmental transaction: The debt-for-nature swap

Land Economics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-24

  Deacon, Robert T ^a   Murphy, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBT FOR NATURE SWAP; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; TRANSACTION COSTS;

EID: 0031450462     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3147074     Document Type: Article

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