Who bears the brunt? Distributional effects of climate change mitigation policies

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 285-307

  Büchs, Milena ^a   Bardsley, Nicholas ^b   Duwe, Sebastian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

emissions; environment; fairness; inequality; taxation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 79954470867     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018310396036     Document Type: Article

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