Communicating Trade-offs amid Controversial Science: Decision Support for Climate Policy

Ecological Economics

Volumn 77, Issue , 2012, Pages 74-90

  Iverson, Terrence ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Climate change policy; Decision making under uncertainty; Decision support; Knightian uncertainty; Minimax regret

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PROBABILITY; STAKEHOLDER; TRADE-OFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

KNIGHTIA;

EID: 84860267302     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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