International Ecological Footprint Inequality: A Methodological Review and Some Results

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 607-631

  Teixidó Figueras, Jordi ^a   Duro, Juan Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological Footprint; Inequality decomposition; Inequality measurement; International environmetal distribution

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; EMISSION CONTROL;

CO2 EMISSIONS; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMETAL DISTRIBUTION; METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS; SUBGROUP DECOMPOSITIONS; WORLD BANK;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84925839315     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-014-9784-x     Document Type: Article

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