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Original Articles

Climate Change Mitigation as Catastrophic Risk Management

Pages 28-36
Published online: 04 Nov 2014
 

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Simon Dietz

Simon Dietz is with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
This research has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement 266992, Global-IQ: “Impacts Quantification of Global Changes.” The usual disclaimer applies.

Notes

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