A computational model of a mental model used to reason about climate change

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-135

  Boschetti, Fabio ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological modelling; Economic modelling; Human cognitive abilities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COGNITION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLICY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 83255176773     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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