How not to measure sustainable value (and how one might)

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 235-243

  Kuosmanen, Timo ^a,b   Kuosmanen, Natalia ^b  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Eco efficiency; Environmental performance; Opportunity cost; Productive efficiency analysis; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ECONOMY; RESOURCE USE; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 70449515619     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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