Climate policies under wealth inequality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2212-2216

  Vasconcelos, Vítor V ^a,b,c   Santos, Francisco C ^a,c   Pacheco, Jorge M ^a,b   Levin, Simon A ^d,e,f  

^a ATP Group CMAF Instituto Para A Investigação Interdisciplinar   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University Fellow   (United States)

^f Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collective action; Environmental agreements; Evolutionary game theory; Global warming; Governance of the commons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893852041     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323479111     Document Type: Article

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