Temperature impacts on economic growth warrant stringent mitigation policy

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 127-131

  Moore, Frances C ^a   Diaz, Delavane B ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; POLICY MAKING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WELFARE REFORM;

EID: 84922984518     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2481     Document Type: Article

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