Economic and social benefits of climate information: Assessing the cost of inaction

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 387-394

  Ruth, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate information; Cost of inaction; Decision making; Mitigation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATE MODELLING; DECISION MAKERS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BENEFITS; INFORMATION DELIVERY; MITIGATION; POLICY DECISIONS; TEMPORAL SCALE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 78650766775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2010.09.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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