The elephant, the blind, and the intersectoral intercomparison of climate impacts

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

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3225-3227

  Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim ^a,b   Frieler, Katja ^a   Kabat, Pavel ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84895792376     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321791111     Document Type: Review

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