Counting the Cost: The Growing Role of Economics in Environmental Decisionmaking

Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 14-38

  Portney, Paul R ^a  

^a RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0344589332     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: 19399154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00139159809605090     Document Type: Article

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4. J. Edmonds et al., “The Return to 1990: The Cost of Mitigating United States Carbon Emissions in the Post-2000 Period” (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory working paper, October 1997).
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