Industrial SO2 pollution and agricultural losses in China: Evidence from heavy air polluters

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 404-413

  Wei, Jiuchang ^a   Guo, Xiumei ^b   Marinova, Dora ^b   Fan, Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air quality monitoring; Chinese counties; Externalities; Impact pathway; Sulphur dioxide; Yield loss

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; AIR CLEANERS; AIR QUALITY; POLLUTION CONTROL; PUBLIC POLICY; SULFUR DETERMINATION; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY MONITORING; CHINESE COUNTIES; EXTERNALITIES; IMPACT PATHWAY; YIELD LOSS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 84890309347     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.10.027     Document Type: Article

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