Compliance monitoring and agri-environmental policy

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 468-487

  Choe, Chongwoo ^a   Fraser, Iain ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; MONITORING;

EID: 0032746598     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1999.tb00894.x     Document Type: Article

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