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041 _aeng
100 _aDeFries, Ruth
245 _aThe missing economic risks in assessments of climate change impacts
260 _aLondon
_bGrantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
_c2019
520 _aArgues that economic assessments of climate change are missing key risks as they are difficult to quantify and are potentially unknown to human experience. Identifies unprecedent and underplayed risks. Highlights limitations in current assessments of climate system thresholds and human adaptive capacity, outlines greatest potential risks from climate change including destabilisation of ice sheets and glaciers and consequent sea level rise leading to flooding, contamination of fresh water and displacement, stronger tropical cyclones, extreme heat impacts and distruction of biodiversity and collapse of ecosystems leading to population displacement and migration.
650 _aClimate change
650 _aRisk
650 _aValuetheplanet
650 _aFlooding
651 _aUnited Kingdom 1973
690 _96238
_aEnvironment
700 _aEdenhofer, Ottmar
700 _aHalliday, Alex
700 _aHeal, Geoffrey
700 _aLenton, Timothy
700 _aPuma, Michael
700 _aRising, James
700 _aRockstroem, Johan
700 _aRuane, Alex
700 _aSchellnhuber, Joachim
700 _aStainforth, David
700 _aStern, Nicholas
700 _aTedesco, Marco
700 _aWard, Bob
710 _aThe Earth Institute Columbia University
710 _aPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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