Good modelling of bad outputs: Pollution and multiple-output production

International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-38

  Fersund, Finn R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Materials balance; Multiple output production; Pollution; Purification; Weak disposability

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949204189     PISSN: 19321465     EISSN: 19321473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/101.00000021     Document Type: Article

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