Water pricing and abatement of industrial water pollution: study of distilleries in India

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 95-113

  Goldar, Bishwanath ^a   Pandey, Rita ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND POLICY   (India)

Author keywords

Dilution of effluents; Pollution tax; Pricing of groundwater; Water pollution by distilleries

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942513641     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03353918     Document Type: Article

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