Climate Policy under Sustainable Discounted Utilitarianism
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- Dietz, Simon & Asheim, Geir B., 2012. "Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 63(3), pages 321-335.
- Simon Dietz & Geir B. Asheim, 2011. "Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism," GRI Working Papers 42, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
- Dietz, Simon & Asheim, Geir B., 2011. "Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 37578, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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climate change; discounted utilitarianism; intergenerational equity; sustainable development; sustainable discounted utilitarianism;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
- Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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