Creating and evaluating co-benefits and co-costs of environmental policies and investments in urban areas

Place-Based Evaluation for Integrated Land-Use Management

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 27-56

  Ruth, Matthias ^a   Zhu, Junming ^b   Lee, Nancy S ^c   Mirzaee, Sahar ^d  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy   (United States)

^d NONE

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