Section 4: Selected Projects in Integrated Impact Assessments

• The MINK Study--a detailed, highly disaggregated assessment of the impacts of a changed climate on Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas
• The McKenzie Basin Impacts Study--an integrated regional assessment that focuses on a major watershed, the McKenzie Basin of Northern Canada

• Carnegie Mellon University--developers of the Integrated Climate Assessment Model (ICAM) and several related research and assessment projects
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology--developers of a large integrated model, with associated activities
• Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories--developers of the MiniCAM and PGCAM integrated assessment models and the State of the Art Report (SOAR) on social science and global change
• IMAGE 1.0--the first model to attempt to integrate the climate issue from end to end, developed at RIVM
• ESCAPE--an extension of IMAGE 1.0, intended to assess European policies and impacts, developed by the University of East Anglia and Oxford University
• IMAGE 2.0--the first integrated climate assessment model to represent impacts and land use at fine spatial scale, developed by RIVM
• TARGETS--a RIVM project designed to study issues surrounding global change and sustainable development
• The Asian Integrated Model (AIM)--a model developed at the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies to study the impacts of mitigation and adaptation scenarios on the Asian-Pacific region
• Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia--developers of several simplified climate models used in a variety of integrated assessment projects
• CETA--a simple model, developed by the Electric Power Research Institute, to explore optimal combinations of abatement and adaptation policies
• MERGE--a dynamic integrated model supported by the Electric Power Research Institute, based on the general equilibrium model Global 2200
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--developers of climate models, now adding economic and impacts components to make an integrated assessment model
• Environmental Protection Agency--developers of the Atmospheric Stabilization Framework (ASF), used to developed IPCC emissions scenarios, as well as the Policy Evaluation Framework (PEF) and the Adaptation Strategy Evaluator (ASE)
• Hammitt et al. Model--an integrated model that represents policy choices in the present, under uncertainty, and at a future date, when relevant uncertainty has been resolved
• The DICE Model--dynamic integrated model of climate change
• The PAGE Model--a smaller integrated model that allows extensive specification and propagation of uncertainties
• The CSERGE Model--the Center for Social and Economic Research into the Global Environment Model currently under development at the University College London
• The CONNECTICUT Model--an integrated model that combines the approach of the DICE model with a probabilistic scenario analysis
• The CFUND Model--a nine-region dynamic model that permits exploration of policies based on inter-regional financial transfers and damage compensation.

Facilitating Entities--organizations that have made significant contributions to the study of various aspects of global change

• IPCC Working Groups
• The Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford University--a forum for energy researchers to collaborate on the study of specific energy issues
• The Global Change Institutes--an annual two-week intensive meeting of prominent researchers in global change and earth system science.

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