Climate negotiations under scientific uncertainty

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 17372-17376

  Barrett, Scott ^a,b   Dannenberg, Astrid ^a,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COORDINATION; DISASTER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84867910317     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208417109     Document Type: Article

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