Climate change decision-support and the tolerable windows approach

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 217-234

  Bruckner, T ^a   Petschel Held, G ^a   Toth F L ^a   Fussel H M ^a   Helm, C ^a   Leimbach, M ^a   Schellnhuber, H J ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate policy; Integrated assessment; Inverse modeling; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE POLICY; CLIMATE PROTECTION STRATEGIES; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; INVERSE MODELING; MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS; SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS;

EID: 0033276366     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019076603956     Document Type: Article

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