Linking Natural Capital and Physical Capital: A Review of Natural Resource Investment Models

Advances in Fisheries Economics: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Gordon R. Munro

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-136

  Charles, A ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cummings; Natural capital; Optimal investment; Physical capital; Terminology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889383915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751589.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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