Governing global problems under uncertainty: making bottom-up climate policy work

Climatic Change

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 15-27

  Sabel, Charles F ^a   Victor, David G ^b,c  

^a School for International and Public Affairs   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c US National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS;

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; BOTTOM UP METHODS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; CLIMATE POLICY; DECISION RULES; GLOBAL PROBLEMS; SCALING-UP;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BARGAINING; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXPLORATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GLOBAL CHANGE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 84944560706     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1507-y     Document Type: Article

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