When we don't know the costs or the benefits: Adaptive strategies for abating climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 235-274

  Lempert, Robert J ^a   Schlesinger, Michael E ^b   Bankes, Steve C ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABATEMENT COST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE POLICY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MODELLING APPROACH; POLICY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029662964     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00140248     Document Type: Article

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