Making climate decisions

Philosophy Compass 10 (11):799-810 (2015)
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Abstract

Many fine-grained 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

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Katie Steele
Australian National University
Richard Bradley
London School of Economics

Citations of this work

Fast Science.Jacob Stegenga - forthcoming - The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Climate Change and Decision Theory.Andrea S. Asker & H. Orri Stefánsson - 2023 - In Pellegrino Gianfranco & Marcello Di Paola (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change. Springer Nature. pp. 267-286.

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