Water companies and river environments: the external costs of water abstraction

Utilities Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-45

  Willis, Kenneth G ^a   Garrod, Guy D ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; RIVER WATER; WATER ABSTRACTION; WATER ECONOMICS;

ENGLAND; UK;

EID: 0032029206     PISSN: 09571787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-1787(97)00028-3     Document Type: Article

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