Framing climate uncertainty: Socio-economic and climate scenarios in vulnerability and adaptation assessments

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 879-893

  Berkhout, Frans ^a   van den Hurk, Bart ^b,c   Bessembinder, Janette ^b   de Boer, Joop ^d,e   Bregman, Bram ^b,f   van Drunen, Michiel ^g  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^g AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Climate scenarios; Framing; Socio economic scenarios; Uncertainty; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900843078     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0519-2     Document Type: Article

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