Valuing air quality in Poland

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-163

  Dziegielewska, Dominika Anna Parry ^a   Mendelsohn, Robert ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; EU enlargement; Poland

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ECOSYSTEMS; HEALTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLLUTION CONTROL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONTINGENT VALUATION; CULTURAL HERITAGE; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS (GEE); MORTALITY;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONTINGENT VALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; WORLD;

EID: 13244262938     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-004-1515-2     Document Type: Article

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