Global models of human decision-making for land-based mitigation and adaptation assessment

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 550-557

  Arneth, A ^a   Brown, C ^b   Rounsevell, M D A ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION;

EID: 84903486240     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2250     Document Type: Review

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