Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Situational and cognitive obstacles to political consensus on climatic change

Guest Editorial

  • Published:
Climatic Change Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Acheson, D.: 1969,Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, W. W. Norton & Co, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Balling, R. C.: 1992,The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions versus Climate Reality, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, San Francisco, CA. (with introduction by A. Wildavsky).

    Google Scholar 

  • Hammond, K. R., Mumpower, J., Dennis, R. L., Fitch, S., and Crumpacker, W.: 1983, ‘Fundamental Obstacles to the Use of Scientific Information in Public Policy Making’,Technol. Forecast. Social Change 24, 287–297.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jervis, R.: 1976,Perceptions and Misperceptions in International Politics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

    Google Scholar 

  • Peters, T. J. and Waterman, R. H.: 1982,In Search of Excellence: Lessons Learned from America's Best Run Companies, Harper and Row, New York, NY.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ravetz, J. R.: 1986, ‘Usable Knowledge, Usable Ignorance: Incomplete Science with Policy Implications’, in Clark, W. C. and Munn, R. E. (eds.),Sustainable Development of the Biosphere, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.

    Google Scholar 

  • Seitz, F., Jastrow, R., and Nierenberg, W. A.: 1989, ‘Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem’, George C. Marshall Institute, Washington, DC.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilson, D. and Swisher, J. N.: 1993, ‘Exploring the Gap: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Analyses of the Cost of Mitigating Global Warming’,Energy Policy 21, 249–263.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund Institute of Technology, University of Lund, Sweden

    Lars J. Nilsson

Authors
  1. Lars J. Nilsson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

The discussion draws on results from the project entitledCultural and Techno-Ecological Constraints and Opportunities for Natural Resources Management, financed by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Nilsson, L.J. Situational and cognitive obstacles to political consensus on climatic change. Climatic Change 25, 93–96 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01661199

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01661199

Keywords

Search

Navigation