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  1. Department of Economics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 06459, U.S.A. and

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  2. Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 15213, U.S.A.

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Yohe, G.W. The Tolerable Windows Approach: Lessons and Limitations. Climatic Change 41, 283–295 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005451718361

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