The carbon crunch: How we're getting climate change wrong - and how to fix it

The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong - and How to Fix It

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-273

  Helm, Dieter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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