Uncertain climate change in an intergenerational planning model

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103-124

  Torvanger, Asbjørn ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

Author keywords

climate change; intergenerational; irreversibility; resource extraction; stochastic dynamic programming; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE IMPACT; MODEL; MODELLING APPROACH; PLANNING; PLANNING IMPLICATION; RESOURCES DEPLETION; THREE-GENERATION PLANNING MODEL;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS EMISSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

INTERGENERATIONAL PLANNING MODEL; IRREVERSIBILITY; RESOURCE EXTRACTION; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 0030615798     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02441372     Document Type: Article

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