The life and death of the Dutch groundwater tax

Water Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1064-1077

  Schuerhoff, Marianne ^a   Weikard, Hans Peter ^a   Zetland, David ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fiscal policy; Green tax; Groundwater; Pigouvian tax; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894031768     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2013.112     Document Type: Article

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