Regulation in environmental markets: What can we learn from experiments to reduce salinity?

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 459-469

  Duke, Charlotte ^a   Gangadharan, Lata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33745246554     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: 14678462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2005.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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