A risk-based environmental Kuznets curve for US hazardous waste sites

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 761-763

  Wang, Pingo ^a   Bohara, Alok K ^a   Berrens, Robert P ^a   Gawande, Kishore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDOUS WASTE; KUZNETS CURVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032466941     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135048598353970     Document Type: Article

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