Open AccessGeneral support for integrated assessment research. Final report
Author(s) -
Hadi Dowlatabadi
Publication year - 2001
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/809185
Subject(s) - discipline , climate change , transdisciplinarity , humanity , management science , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , engineering ethics , data science , political science , computer science , environmental resource management , sociology , engineering , social science , environmental science , ecology , mathematics , law , biology , statistics
The climate change problem spans an extraordinarily large number of disciplines from earth sciences to social and political sciences. The interaction of processes described by these different fields is why climate change is such a complex issue. Keeping track of these interactions and bringing coherence to the assumptions underlying each disciplinary insight on the climate problem is a massive undertaking. Integrated assessment is an interdisciplinary approach designed to provide systematic evaluations of technically complex problems such as the analysis of environmental change challenges facing humanity. Ph.D. theses stemming from this application are summarized. Then some aspects of Integrated Climate Assessment Models are described