Slowing deforestation pace through subsidies: A differential game

Automatica

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 301-309

  Fredj, Karima ^a   Martin Herran, Guiomar ^b   Zaccour, Georges ^a  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Differential games; Environment; Foreign transfers; Stackelberg equilibrium

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BUDGET CONTROL; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY; THEOREM PROVING;

DIFFERENTIAL GAMES; FOREIGN TRANSFERS; FOREST CONSERVATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 0346093883     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2003.10.020     Document Type: Article

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