The GLASS model: A strategy for quantifying global environmental security

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-12

  Alcamo, Joseph ^a   Endejan, Marcel B ^a   Kaspar, Frank ^a   Rösch, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate impacts; Environment and security; Environmental crises; Environmental security; Environmental stress; Extreme climate events; Food shortages; GLASS model; Global modeling; Integrated modeling; Water shortages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039191365     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1462-9011(00)00099-X     Document Type: Article

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