Embracing uncertainty in climate change policy

Friederike E. L. Otto (), David J. Frame, Alexander Otto and Myles R. Allen
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Friederike E. L. Otto: Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
David J. Frame: New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington
Alexander Otto: Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Myles R. Allen: Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Nature Climate Change, 2015, vol. 5, issue 10, 917-920

Abstract: This Perspective explores whether policymakers can learn from adaptive management techniques to make climate policies 'anti-fragile', embracing and benefitting from scientific uncertainty, rather than simply being robust to it.

Date: 2015
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