Compounding crises: Climate change in a complex world

Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 121-138

  Steffen, Will ^a,b   Griggs, David ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE   (Sweden)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203370476-16     Document Type: Chapter

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