Incorporating catastrophes into integrated assessment: Science, impacts, and adaptation

Climatic Change

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 265-286

  Wright, Evelyn L ^a   Erickson, Jon D ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEAN CIRCULATIONS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELING; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 0037384160     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022829706609     Document Type: Article

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