Mitigating Damages from Coastal Wetlands Development: Policy, Economics, and Financing

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Date

June 1, 1987

Authors

Leonard Shabman and Sandra Batie

Publication

Journal Article

Reading time

1 minute

Authors

Leonard A. Shabman

Senior Fellow

Len Shabman is a Senior Fellow at RFF. His current work balances time spent in research with advisory activities in order to have a direct bearing on the design and execution of water and related resources policy.

Sandra Batie

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