The building blocks of International Ecological Footprint inequality: A Regression-Based Decomposition

Ecological Economics

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 30-39

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

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological Footprint; Environmental equity; Inequality; Regression Based Decomposition; STIRPAT; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EQUITY; PRIORITIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84937719758     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.07.014     Document Type: Article

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