Exploring biophysical approaches to develop environmental taxation tools: Envitax, to face the "new scarcity"

Economic Institutions and Environmental Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 177-200

  Bimonte, Salvatore ^a   Ulgiati, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

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