Environmental indices and the politics of the Conservation Reserve Program

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-20

  Ribaudo, Marc O ^a   Hoag, Dana L ^b   Smith, Mark E ^c   Heimlich, Ralph ^a  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation reserve program; Environmental index; Indices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037508968     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-160X(01)00002-4     Document Type: Article

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