The environmental benefits and costs of genetically modified (GM) crops

Frontiers of Economics and Globalization

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 173-199

  Wesseler, Justus ^a   Scatasta, Sara ^b   Fall, El Hadji ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNDP   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Environmental cost benefit analysis; Externalities; Genetically modified crops; Pesticide use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896506977     PISSN: 15748715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1574-8715(2011)0000010012     Document Type: Article

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