Making future generations count: Comment on "Remembering the future"

Ecological Economics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 487-488

  Sumaila, U Rashid ^a   Walters, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Current and future generations; Discount factor; Environmental resources

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; FUTURE PROSPECT;

EID: 33845681251     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.02.007     Document Type: Note

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