Ethical aspects in the economic modeling of water policy options

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-91

  Biewald, Anne ^a   Kowarsch, Martin ^b   Lotze Campen, Hermann ^a   Gerten, Dieter ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agro economic model; Normative assumption; Policy analysis; Water management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; EQUITY; ETHICS; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER; POLICY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84919632654     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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