Measuring environmental inequality

Ecological Economics

Volumn 124, Issue , 2016, Pages 114-123

  Boyce, James K ^a   Zwickl, Klara ^b   Ash, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental justice; Gini coefficient; Inequality measurement

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EQUITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959100707     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.01.014     Document Type: Article

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