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Making Climate Decisions
Author(s) -
Bradley Richard,
Steele Katie
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12259
Subject(s) - framing (construction) , climate change , management science , computer science , environmental resource management , psychology , risk analysis (engineering) , economics , business , ecology , geography , biology , archaeology
Many fine‐grained (if not bigger picture) decisions concerning climate change involve significant, even severe, uncertainty. Here, we focus on modelling the decisions of single agents, whether individual persons or groups perceived as corporate entities. We offer a taxonomy of the sources and kinds of uncertainty that arise in framing these decision problems, as well as strategies for making a choice in spite of uncertainty. The aim is to facilitate a more transparent and structured treatment of uncertainty in climate decision making.