Economics of climate policy and collective decision making

Climatic Change

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 143-162

  Bürgenmeier, Beat ^a   Baranzini, Andrea ^b   Ferrier, Catherine ^a   Germond Duret, Céline ^a   Ingold, Karin ^a   Perret, Sylvain ^a   Rafaj, Peter ^d   Kypreos, Socrates ^c   Wokaun, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS; ECONOMIC THEORY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; TECHNO-ECONOMIC MODELS;

PUBLIC POLICY;

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; SURVEY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33751535162     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9147-x     Document Type: Article

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