Willingness of residents to participate in e-waste recycling in India

Environmental Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-68

  Dwivedy, Maheshwar ^a   Mittal, R K ^b  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

E waste; India; Logistic regression; Recycling; WEEE; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877119631     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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