Consumption tradeoff vs. catastrophes avoidance: Implications of some recent results in happiness studies on the economics of climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-127

  Ng, Yew Kwang ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN STIMULATION; DISCOUNT RATES; ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK; FUTURE CONSUMPTION; HUMAN SPECIES; MARGINAL UTILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

COMMERCE; DISASTERS; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 79951809164     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9880-z     Document Type: Article

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