Climate Policy Under Uncertain and Heterogeneous Climate Damages

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-99

  Schmidt, Matthias G W ^a   Held, Hermann ^a,b   Kriegler, Elmar ^a   Lorenz, Alexander ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate policy; Damages; Heterogeneity; Insurance; Stabilization target; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

INSURANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE POLICY; DAMAGES; HETEROGENEITY; STABILIZATION TARGET; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HETEROGENEITY; INSURANCE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WELFARE REFORM;

EID: 84872815540     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9582-2     Document Type: Article

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