Estimating pollution abatement costs of salmon aquaculture: A joint production approach

Land Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 569-584

  Liu, Yajie ^a   Sumaila, U Rashid ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABATEMENT COST; AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY; AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALMONID CULTURE; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

NORWAY;

EID: 77956135178     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.86.3.569     Document Type: Article

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