Reexamining the economics of aerosol geoengineering

Climatic Change

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 993-1006

  Bickel, J Eric ^a,b,c   Agrawal, Shubham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy   (United States)

^c 1 University Station C2200 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ECONOMIC DAMAGES; GEOENGINEERING;

AEROSOLS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AEROSOL; CARBON DIOXIDE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; PROFITABILITY; RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84880574005     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0619-x     Document Type: Article

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