Nonpoint source pollution control under incomplete and costly information

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 489-506

  Farzin, Y Hossein ^a   Kaplan, Jonathan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

constrained pollution control budget; costly information; non point source pollution; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION (NPS); RESOURCE ECONOMICS; TRADEOFFS;

BUDGET CONTROL; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE; POLLUTION CONTROL;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

INFORMATION; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 4043087579     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EARE.0000036775.79214.a4     Document Type: Article

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