Scaling in Integrated AssessmentD.S. Rothman, J. Rotmans CRC Press, 2005 M08 9 - 374 páginas A collection of papers prepared for the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment's (EFIEA) Policy Workshop on Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessment, held from 12-19 July 2000. |
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1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Geographic Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessments of Climate Change | 5 |
Diverging and Converging Issues in the Physical and Social Sciences | 35 |
Lessons from Ten Years with ICAM | 51 |
5 Scaling Issues in the Social Sciences | 75 |
a Matter of Scale? | 107 |
7 Scales in Economic Theory | 125 |
from Points Upward and from Global Models Downwards | 139 |
Bridging Five Orders of Magnitude Scale Gaps in Climatic and Ecological Studies | 179 |
10 The Syndromes Approach to Scaling Describing Global Change on an Intermediate Functional Scale | 205 |
11 Polycentric Integrated Assessment | 237 |
12 Emergent Properties of Scale in Global Environmental Modeling Are There Any? | 263 |
the Challenge for Integrated Assessment | 293 |
Problem or Challenge? | 329 |
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