Descriptive, prescriptive and second-best approaches to the control of global greenhouse gas emissions

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 1431-1452

  Shiell, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Inter generational equity; Inter regional equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042343582     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00218-3     Document Type: Article

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