The Tuvalu Syndrome: Can geoengineering solve climate's collective action problem?

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 1047-1066

  Millard Ball, Adam ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; GEOENGINEERING; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; IF THERE ARE; LOCAL SIDE EFFECTS; SIDE EFFECT; SPACE-BASED; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION;

CLIMATE MODELS; GAME THEORY; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE; OZONE LAYER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABATEMENT COST; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENGINEERING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INHIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE DEPLETION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESEARCH WORK; STRATOSPHERE; TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84856216137     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0102-0     Document Type: Article

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