The value of determining global land cover for assessing climate change mitigation options

The Value of Information: Methodological Frontiers and New Applications in Environment and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 193-230

  Fritz, Steffen ^a   Fuss, Sabine ^a   Havlík, Petr ^a   Szolgayová, Jana ^a,b   McCallum, Ian ^a   Obersteiner, Michael ^a   See, Linda ^a,c  

^a Ecosystems Services and Management Program   (Austria)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GEOSS; Land cover maps; Land use; Mitigation; Value of information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927804697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4839-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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