Using a Game to Engage Stakeholders in Extreme Event Attribution Science

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 353-365

  Parker, Hannah R ^a   Cornforth, Rosalind J ^a   Suarez, Pablo ^b,c   Allen, Myles R ^d   Boyd, Emily ^a,e   James, Rachel ^d   Jones, Richard G ^f,g   Otto, Friederike E L ^d   Walton, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre   (Netherlands)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme event attribution; Loss and damage policy; Participatory games; Probabilistic event attribution (PEA); Risk management

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXTREME EVENT; POLICY MAKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 85007162657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20950055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13753-016-0105-6     Document Type: Article

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