An Evaluation of the Treatment of Risk and Uncertainties in the IPCC Reports on Climate Change

Risk Analysis

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 701-712

  Aven, Terje ^a   Renn, Ortwin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL THREATS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPETENCE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; NARROW DEFINITIONS; RISK AND UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY AND RISKS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RISK; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RISK; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84929954765     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12298     Document Type: Article

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