Problems with estimating the economic impacts of averting climate change: A look at water resources

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2251-2257

  Shaw, W Douglass ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; HOUSEHOLD; RECREATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEM; WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 0029663701     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00994     Document Type: Article

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