An agent-based framework for assessing vulnerability futures

Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change: Making Research Useful for Adaptation, Decision Making and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 147-171

  Acosta Michlik, Lilibeth ^a,b,c   Rounsevell, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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EID: 84925815311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849770514     Document Type: Chapter

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