Intra- and intergenerational discounting in the climate game

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1025-1028

  Jacquet, Jennifer ^a   Hagel, Kristin ^b   Hauert, Christoph ^c   Marotzke, Jochem ^d   Röhl, Torsten ^b   Milinski, Manfred ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84888876618     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2024     Document Type: Article

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