Climate risk management requires explicit representation of societal trade-offs

Climatic Change

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 713-723

  Garner, Gregory ^a   Reed, Patrick ^b   Keller, Klaus ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; POTENTIALLY CONFLICTING PREFERENCES; RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; STAKEHOLDER GROUPS; TEMPERATURE STABILIZATION; TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ABATEMENT COST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84961285957     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1607-3     Document Type: Article

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