Measuring environmental values and environmental impacts: Going from the local to the global

Climatic Change

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 351-376

  Rothman, Dale S ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ETHICS; GLOBAL CHANGE;

EID: 0033975243     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005645301478     Document Type: Article

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