Intergenerational cost-benefit analysis and marine ecosystem restoration

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 329-343

  Sumaila, Ussif Rashid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Current and future generations; Discounting; Ecosystem restoration; Fisheries

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; FISHERY; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 11144224622     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2679.2004.00166.x     Document Type: Review

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