The impacts of climate variability on near-term policy choices and the value of information

Climatic Change

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 129-161

  Lempert, Robert J ^a   Schlesinger, Michael E ^b   Bankes, Steven C ^a   Andronova, Natalia G ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 0034036822     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005697118423     Document Type: Article

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