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)

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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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