Deep and shallow uncertainty in messaging climate change

Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Beyond the Horizon - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 13-25

  Cooke, Roger M ^a,b  

^a Department of Mathematics ^*  (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

DEEP UNCERTAINTIES; ICE SHEET DYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY; SUBJECTIVE UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84900005034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2432227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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