The effort factor: Evaluating the increasing marginal impact of resource extraction over time

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-68

  Davidson, Debra J ^a   Andrews, Jeffrey ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological impact analysis; IPAT; Natural resource depletion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898445642     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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