Municipal waste generation and the EKC hypothesis new evidence exploiting province-based panel data

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 719-725

  Mazzanti, Massimiliano ^a   Montini, Anna ^b   Zoboli, Roberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; KUZNETS CURVE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67650237065     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850701221824     Document Type: Article

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