Coupling climate and economic models in a cost-benefit framework: A convex optimisation approach

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-114

  Drouet, L ^a   Edwards, N R ^b   Haurie, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate; Convex optimization; Coupling; Economy; Integrated assessment model; Oracle

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; COUPLINGS;

CLIMATE; ECONOMIC GROWTH MODELS; ECONOMY; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; INTERMEDIATE COMPLEXITY; OPTIMISATION TECHNIQUES; ORACLE;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33646415917     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-006-9047-5     Document Type: Article

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