Product durability and extended producer responsibility in solid waste management

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 161-182

  Runkel, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended producer responsibility; Market structure; Product durability; Solid waste

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPETITION; DURABILITY;

PRODUCT DURABILITY;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; MARKET CONDITIONS; SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037308938     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022800206337     Document Type: Article

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