Assessing integrated assessments

Climatic Change

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 369-395

  Risbey, James ^a   Kandlikar, Milind ^a   Patwardhan, Anand ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CHANGE; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0030301852     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00139298     Document Type: Article

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