Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

• Publication date

  2011-12-13

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science, Philosophy, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rsta.2011.0149PMID 22042899
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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