Moving towards integrated policy formulation and evaluation: The green economy model

Environmental and Climate Technologies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-19

  Bassi, Andrea M ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b KnowlEdge Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Green economy; Model; Natural capital; Policy; Simulation; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ACTION-ORIENTED; GREEN ECONOMIES; INTEGRATED MODELING; NATURAL CAPITAL; POLICY EVALUATION; POLICY FORMULATION; SIMULATION; SOCIAL INDICATORS; SOCIAL-ECONOMIC; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

DECISION MAKING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; NATURAL CAPITAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84958778137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22558837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/rtuect-2015-0009     Document Type: Article

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