Changes in environmentally sensitive productivity and technological modernization in China's iron and steel industry in the 1990s

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 485-504

  Fujii, Hidemichi ^a   Kaneko, Shinji ^b   Managi, Shunsuke ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 77955853855     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X10000173     Document Type: Article

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