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Morgan, M.G., Kandlikar, M., Risbey, J. et al. Why Conventional Tools for Policy Analysis Are Often Inadequate for Problems of Global Change. Climatic Change 41, 271–281 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005469411776
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