Economics- and physical-based metrics for comparing greenhouse gases

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 123-141

  Johansson, Daniel J A ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST POTENTIAL; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; GLOBAL WARMING;

GREENHOUSE GASES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 83055184488     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0072-2     Document Type: Article

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