In silico science for climate policy: How policy-makers process and use carbon storage simulation data

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 148-156

  Scheer, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon capture and storage; Geosciences; Science policy interface; Simulation and modeling

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBON STORAGE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FIELD WORK; INFORMATION PROCESSING;

EID: 84918803974     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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