Intermediaries in environmental offset markets: Actions and incentives

Land Use Policy

Volumn 32, Issue , 2013, Pages 145-154

  Coggan, Anthea ^a,b   Buitelaar, Edwin ^c,d   Whitten, Stuart M ^a   Bennett, Jeff ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental policy; Intermediaries; Offsets; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAND MARKET; TRANSACTION COST;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84870487502     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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