Coping with climate change uncertainty for adaptation planning: An improved criterion for decision making under uncertainty using UKCP09

Climate Risk Management

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 63-75

  Green, M ^a   Weatherhead, E K ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Decision making; Green Z score; UKCP09; Uncertainty; WaSim

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901496137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22120963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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