From the environmental debt to the environmental loan: Trends and future challenges for intergenerational discounting

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1623-1644

  Bottero, Marta ^a   Ferretti, Valentina ^a   Mondini, Giulio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost Benefit Analysis; Discount rate; Environmental damage; Loan; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEBT; DECISION MAKING; DISCOUNT RATE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FUTURE PROSPECT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; TORINO [PIEDMONT]; TURIN;

EID: 84887191038     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-013-9453-1     Document Type: Article

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