Environmental uncertainty and the timing of environmental policy

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 163-190

  Saphores, Jean Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Environmental policy; Global warming; Irreversibilities; Option value; Stock externalities; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544506301     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2004.tb00132.x     Document Type: Article

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