Reflections on green infrastructure economics

Environmental Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 357-365

  Jaffe, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; COMPLEXITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; PLANNING METHOD; STORMWATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING;

EID: 79957485591     PISSN: 14660466     EISSN: 14660474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1466046610000475     Document Type: Article

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