Proposed changes to the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare: An application to Belgium

Ecological Economics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 741-751

  Bleys, Brent ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Economic welfare; ISEW; Threshold hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CAPITAL; ECONOMICS; GROWTH; INVESTMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; THRESHOLD; VALUATION;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38349014172     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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