Knowledge about aerosol injection does not reduce individual mitigation efforts

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Merk, Christine ^a   Pönitzsch, Gert ^b   Rehdanz, Katrin ^a,c  

^a KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

climate change mitigation; climate engineering; moral hazard; risk compensation; stratospheric aerosol injection

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; GREENHOUSE GASES; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; ENGINEERING METHODS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MORAL HAZARD; POTENTIAL THREATS; RISK COMPENSATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GREENHOUSE GAS; HAZARD; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MITIGATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RISK PERCEPTION; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84975483835     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054009     Document Type: Article

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