The epistemic, ethical, and political dimensions of uncertainty in integrated assessment modeling

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 627-645

  Beck, Marisa ^a   Krueger, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; POLITICAL DIMENSIONS; SOCIAL RELATIONS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ETHICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84978372508     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.415     Document Type: Review

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