Modelling Climate Change Impacts for Adaptation Assessments

Simplicity, Complexity and Modelling

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 83-102

  Dessai, Suraje ^a   van der Sluijs, Jeroen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Science Technology and Society ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation assessments; Climate models; Greenhouse gas emissions; Modelling climate change impacts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ADAPTATION ASSESSMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84873749906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119951445.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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