An economic analysis of Midwestern US criteria pollutant emissions trends from 1970 to 2000

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1666-1674

  Tao, Zhining ^a,b   Hewings, Geoffrey ^c   Donaghy, Kieran ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic structure; Emission intensity; Regional environmental econometric input output model

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; EMISSION INVENTORY; GROWTH RATE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953139562     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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