Residential property values and community right-to-know laws: Has the toxics release inventory had an impact?

Growth and Change

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 113-133

  Decker, Christopher S ^a   Nielsen, Donald A ^a   Sindt, Roger P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGISLATION; PROPERTY MARKET; TOXICITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14844346190     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2005.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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