The economics of climate change impacts and policy benefits at city scale: A conceptual framework

Climatic Change

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-87

  Hallegatte, Stéphane ^a,b   Henriet, Fanny ^c   Corfee Morlot, Jan ^c  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c OECD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; MODEL-BASED ANALYSIS; SELECTED EXAMPLES; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC IMPACT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH WORK; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 78651099506     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9976-5     Document Type: Article

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