Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 3
Subtitle: Economywide and International Environmental Issues (Handbooks in Economics)
Contributors: Karl-Göran Mäler (Editor); Jeffrey R. Vincent (Editor)
Publisher: North Holland
Published: July 6, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780444511461
First sentence: Intertemporal issues play a particularly central role in environmental problems because the time scale of many environmental processes is radically longer than conventional economic time scales.