Does Environmental Economics Produce Aeroplanes Without Engines? On the Need for an Environmental Social Science

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 337-361

  Folmer, Henk ^a,b   Johansson Stenman, Olof ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Economic methodology; Environmental economics; Experiments; Logical duels; Moral philosophy; Political science; Psychology; Sociology; Spatial sciences; Surveys

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BUILDING MATERIALS; ENGINES; EXPERIMENTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SURVEYING;

ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; LOGICAL DUELS; MORAL PHILOSOPHY; POLITICAL SCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; SPATIAL SCIENCES;

ECONOMICS;

AIRCRAFT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; PHILOSOPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOBIOLOGY; SURVEY;

EID: 79952699884     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-010-9454-6     Document Type: Review

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