The social utility of event attribution: liability, adaptation, and justice-based loss and damage

Climatic Change

Volumn 143, Issue 1-2, 2017, Pages 201-212

  Lusk, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; PRODUCT LIABILITY;

ADAPTIVE DECISION MAKING; EXTREME EVENTS; FORCINGS; SOCIAL UTILITY; WEATHER EVENTS;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; EXTREME EVENT; LIABILITY; UTILITY SECTOR;

EID: 85019243818     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-017-1967-3     Document Type: Article

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