Thematic Guide to Integrated Assessment Modeling

(Published in 1995)

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Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction

Section 2: Past Integrated Assessment Examples and Parallels

• Climatic Impact Assessment Program (CIAP)
• U.S. Department of Energy Program in the Late 1970s
• RAINS

Section 3: Design Issues in Integrated Assessment

• Purpose, Design, and Other Large-Scale (Non-Representational) Issues
  • Audience, Purpose, and Relationship
  • How Integrated and Over What Dimensions?
  • Integrated Assessment and Integrated Models
  • Flexibility, Abstraction and Accessibility
• Representing Components of the Causal Chain for Integrated Assessment
  • Future Emissions Paths
  • Technological Change
  • Population Growth
  • Land Use
  • Atmosphere and Oceans
  • Ecological Impacts
  • Socioeconomic Impacts
  • Treatment of Uncertainty
  • Discounting
  • Resolution
  • Representing Policies
  • Incorporating Political Processes and Negotiation

Section 4: Selected Projects in Integrated Assessment of Climate Change

• Integrated Impact Assessment
  • The MINK Study
  • The McKenzie Basin Impacts Study
• Integrated Assessment and Modeling Projects
  • Carnegie-Mellon University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories
  • IMAGE 1.0
  • ESCAPE
  • IMAGE 2.0
  • TARGETS
  • Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies: The Asian Integrated Model
  • Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia
  • CETA
  • MERGE
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Hammitt et al. Model
  • The DICE/RICE/PRICE Models
  • The Page Model
  • The CSERGE Model
  • The CONNECTICUT Model
  • The New Earth 21 Model
  • The URGENCE Model
  • The CFUND Model
• Integrated Assessment Support Systems
• Facilitating Entities
  • IPCC Working Groups
  • The Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford University
  • The Global Change Institutes

Section 5: Conclusions: In Search of Integrated Assessment

• Things We Seem To Know
  • Why We Need Integrated Assessment
  • Integrated Assessment Supplements Disciplinary Research
  • A Difficult Craft, An Immature Discipline
  • The Need for Multiple Parallel Projects
• Major Unresolved Questions
  • Assessments for Whom, on What, by Whom?
  • Tailored Assessments versus Generic Assessment Tools
  • Embedding: The Sununu Problem
  • Integration and Authority

Bibliography

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Sources

Parson, E.A. and K. Fisher-Vanden, Searching for Integrated Assessment: A Preliminary Investigation of Methods, Models, and Projects in the Integrated Assessment of Global Climatic Change. Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). University Center, Mich. 1995.

 

Suggested Citation

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). 1995. Thematic Guide to Integrated Assessment Modeling of Climate Change [online]. Palisades, NY: CIESIN. Available at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mva/iamcc.tg/TGHP.html [accessed DATE].

 

 

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