Approaches for performing uncertainty analysis in large-scale energy/economic policy models

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-46

  Kann, Antje ^a   Weyant, John P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; ENDOGENOUS PROCESS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS; SCALE ECONOMICS; VALUE JUDGMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC POLICY; MODELING; POLICY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034403996     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019041023520     Document Type: Article

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