Methods for addressing climate change uncertainties in project environmental impact assessments

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 85-99

  Byer, Philip H ^a   Yeomans, Julian Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental impact assessments; Global warming; Probabilistic analysis; Scenario analysis; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34347266496     PISSN: 14615517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/146155107X205841     Document Type: Article

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