Improving the assessment and valuation of climate change impacts for policy and regulatory analysis

Climatic Change

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 433-438

  Marten, Alex L ^a   Kopp, Robert E ^b   Shouse, Kate C ^a   Griffiths, Charles W ^a   Hodson, Elke L ^c,d   Kopits, Elizabeth ^a   Mignone, Bryan K ^c   Moore, Chris ^a   Newbold, Steve C ^a   Waldhoff, Stephanie ^e   Wolverton, Ann ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Rutgers University   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^d AAAS   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; REGULATORY APPROACH; VALUATION;

EID: 84874947242     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0608-0     Document Type: Article

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