Global warming vs. climate change, taxes vs. prices: Does word choice matter?

Climatic Change

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Villar, Ana ^a   Krosnick, Jon A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; MITIGATION POLICIES; PUBLIC PERCEPTION; PUBLIC SUPPORT; WORD CHOICES;

COST REDUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING;

SURVEYS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL WARMING; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL CHANGE; TAX SYSTEM;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951810114     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9882-x     Document Type: Article

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