Negative learning

Climatic Change

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 155-172

  Oppenheimer, Michael ^a,b   O'Neill, Brian C ^c,d   Webster, Mort ^e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COST ACCOUNTING; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; LEAD; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (R ,S ,S) POLICY; A POSTERIORI; ANTARCTIC ICE; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; FORMAL MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGES; POLICY MAKERS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION; TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; GLOBAL CHANGE; ICE SHEET; LEARNING; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 46649120838     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9405-1     Document Type: Article

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