Optimizing production technology choices: Conventional production vs. recycling

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Huhtala, Anni ^a  

^a ACADEMY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conventional technology; Pollution; Recycling; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; MODEL; RECYCLING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032782357     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-7655(98)00030-X     Document Type: Article

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