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Shadow-pricing Environmental Goods and Services, Using the Enmergy Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Gonzague Pillet  and
Andrea Baranzini
Gonzague Pillet
Affiliation:
Centre for Human Ecology & Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Box 266, 1227 Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland.
Andrea Baranzini
Affiliation:
Centre for Human Ecology & Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Box 266, 1227 Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1988 , pp. 263 - 264
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1988

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