Sequential climate change policy

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 744-756

  Parson, Edward A ^a,b   Karwat, Darshan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; DECISION MAKERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; KNOWLEDGE STATE; MULTIPLE ELEMENTS; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SEQUENTIAL DECISIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 80052242364     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.128     Document Type: Article

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