Limits to Substitution Between Ecosystem Services and Manufactured Goods and Implications for Social Discounting

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 135-158

  Drupp, Moritz A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dual discounting; Ecosystem services; Limited substitutability; Project evaluation; Subsistence; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ELASTICITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DUAL DISCOUNTING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LIMITED SUBSTITUTABILITY; PROJECT EVALUATION; SUBSISTENCE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DISCOUNT RATE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; MANUFACTURING; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC GOODS; SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SUBSISTENCE; SUBSTITUTION; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84991661922     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-016-0068-5     Document Type: Article

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