Integrated economic and climate modeling

Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1069-1131

  Nordhaus, William ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Economics of climate change; Energy models; Integrated assessment models; Large scale economic modeling; Social cost of carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975864746     PISSN: 22116885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59568-3.00016-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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