A review of climate geoengineering appraisals

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 597-615

  Bellamy, Rob ^a   Chilvers, Jason ^a   Vaughan, Naomi E ^a   Lenton, Timothy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EARTH (PLANET);

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; APPRAISAL METHOD; DECISION MAKERS; FRAMING EFFECTS; LITERATURE SEARCH; PROBLEM DEFINITION; SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH;

EID: 84867612769     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.197     Document Type: Review

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