The difficulties of estimating global non-market damages from climate change

Global Climate Change: The Science, Economics and Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 114-139

  Smith, Joel B ^a,b   Lazo, Jeffrey K ^a   Hurd, Brian ^c  

^a ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b The Climate Change Division of the Environmental Protection Agency   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 46849120061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781843767138.000012     Document Type: Chapter

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