What is the economic value of information about climate thresholds?

Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment

Volumn 9780521866033, Issue , 2007, Pages 343-354

  Keller, Klaus ^a   Kim, Seung Rae ^b   Baehr, Johanna ^c   Bradford, David F ^c   Oppenheimer, Michael ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; COST REDUCTION; GEOLOGY;

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; BASINS OF ATTRACTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CLIMATE RESPONSE; COSTS AND BENEFITS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84927110876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511619472.033     Document Type: Chapter

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