Environmental risk and uncertainty

Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 601-649

  Aldy, Joseph E ^a   Viscusi, W Kip ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Discount rates; Dose response; Environment; Hazardous wastes; Irreversibility; Risk; Toxic; Warnings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968616706     PISSN: 22117547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53685-3.00010-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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