Integrating climate forecasts and societal decision making: Challenges to an emergent boundary organization

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 454-477

  Agrawala, Shardul ^a   Broad, Kenneth ^b   Guston, David H ^c,d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0035438166     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016224390102600404     Document Type: Article

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