The impact of possible climate catastrophes on global warming policy

Energy Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 691-701

  Baranzini, Andrea ^a,b   Chesney, Marc ^c   Morisset, Jacques ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c HEC PARIS   (France)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate catastrophes; Cost benefit analysis; Global warming; Real options; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CLIMATE POLICIES;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL WARMING; POLICY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ROLE;

EID: 0037410699     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(02)00101-5     Document Type: Article

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