Rethinking climate engineering categorization in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-35

  Boucher, Olivier ^a   Forster, Piers M ^b   Gruber, Nicolas ^c   Ha Duong, Minh ^d   Lawrence, Mark G ^e   Lenton, Timothy M ^f   Maas, Achim ^e   Vaughan, Naomi E ^g  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATE MODIFICATIONS; CURRENT DEFINITION; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS;

EID: 84890397348     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.261     Document Type: Article

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