Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy

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Authors Nicholas Stern, Leonard A. Smith

Publication date 4 June 2012

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

uncertaintyriskambiguitydecision supportclimate policyscientific speculation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH) (62M10) Decision theory (91B06) Economic time series analysis (91B84) Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.) (91B76) Other social and behavioral sciences (mathematical treatment) (91F99)

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