Intergenerational impartiality: Replacing discounting by probability weighting

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 237-257

  Ng, Yew Kwang ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discounting; Environmental ethics; Impartiality; Intergenerational; Intertemporal; Probability; Sustainable development; Welfare

Indexed keywords

DISCOUNT RATE; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER;

EID: 21444446794     PISSN: 11877863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10806-005-1491-8     Document Type: Article

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