Economics of climate change: Risk and responsibility by world region

Climate Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 298-316

  Srinivasan, U Thara ^a  

^a Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate debt; Climate policy; Equity; Integrated assessment models; North South; Regional impacts; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE GAS; KYOTO PROTOCOL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 77957679800     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2009.0652     Document Type: Article

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