Managing municipal solid waste with unit-based pricing: Policy effects and responsiveness to pricing

Land Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 645-660

  Huang, Ju Chin ^a   Halstead, John M ^a   Saunders, Shanna B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ECONOMETRICS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRICE DYNAMICS; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053319043     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.87.4.645     Document Type: Article

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