Acting now or later? Determining an adequate decision strategy for mitigation measures addressing methane emissions from ruminants

Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 115-120

  Hadorn, G Hirsch ^a   Brun, G ^a   Soliva, C ^b   Stenke, A ^a   Peter, T ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Timing strategy; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930205318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-753-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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