Social discounting of large dams with climate change uncertainty

Water Alternatives

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-206

  Jeuland, Marc ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cost Benefit analysis; Nile basin; Social discount rate; Water resources

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DAM; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HYDROLOGY; INSURANCE SYSTEM; MACROECONOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATE ROLE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY; WATER INDUSTRY; WATER RESOURCE; WORLD BANK;

ETHIOPIA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 77956624300     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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