Pollution markets and social equity: Analyzing the fairness of cap and trade

Ecology Law Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-56

  Farber, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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