Precautionary principle and robustness for a stock pollutant with multiplicative risk

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-46

  Gonzalez, Fidel ^a  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global warming; Knightian uncertainty; Multiplicative disturbances; Pollution control; Precautionary principle; Robustness; Stochastic control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; GLOBAL WARMING; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; POLLUTION CONTROL; ROBUST CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABATEMENT COSTS; BUSINESS MEDIA; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; POLICY MAKERS; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLES; STEADY STATES;

POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; POLICY MAKING; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION POLICY; POLLUTION TAX; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY;

KNIGHTIA;

EID: 48349148274     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-007-9179-3     Document Type: Article

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