Climate policy in practice: A typology of obstacles and implications for integrated assessment modeling

Climate Change Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Staub Kaminski, Iris ^a   Zimmer, Anne ^a   Jakob, Michael ^a,b   Marschinski, Robert ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

barriers; climate change mitigation; Climate policy; Integrated Assessment Models; second best

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073467638     PISSN: 20100078     EISSN: 20100086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010007814400041     Document Type: Article

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