The importance of the regional/local dimension of sustainable development: An illustrative Computable General Equilibrium analysis of the Jersey economy

Economic Modelling

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-41

  Learmonth, D ^a   McGregor, P G ^a   Swales, J K ^a   Turner, K R ^a   Yin, Y P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environment; Population; Regional CGE modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845883083     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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