Natural resource management: Challenges and policy options

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 203-230

  Coria, Jessica ^a,b   Sterner, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Deposit refunds; Liability; Natural resources; Policy instruments; Property rights; Subsidies; Sustainability; Taxes; Tradable quotas; Voluntary agreements

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053041075     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-083110-120131     Document Type: Review

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