Valuing climate impacts in integrated assessment models: The MIT IGSM

Climatic Change

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 561-573

  Reilly, John ^a   Paltsev, Sergey ^a   Strzepek, Ken ^a   Selin, Noelle E ^a   Cai, Yongxia ^a   Nam, Kyung Min ^a   Monier, Erwan ^a   Dutkiewicz, Stephanie ^a   Scott, Jeffery ^a   Webster, Mort ^a   Sokolov, Andrei ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL VARIABLES; DEEP UNCERTAINTIES; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; LAND-USE CHANGE; OCEAN ACIDIFICATIONS; PREMATURE DEATH; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FLOODING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MARKET SYSTEM; MITIGATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; VALUATION;

EID: 84874945184     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0635-x     Document Type: Article

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