SCALING IN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT (Integrated Assessment Series, 2)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 11
The Contributors......Page 12
Foreword......Page 14
List of Figures......Page 16
List of Tables......Page 18
1 Introduction......Page 20
2 Geographic Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessments of Climate Change......Page 24
3 Micro/Macro and Soft/Hard: Diverging and Converging Issues in the Physical and Social Sciences......Page 54
4 Scale and Scope in Integrated Assessment: Lessons from Ten Years with ICAM......Page 70
5 Scaling Issues in the Social Sciences......Page 94
6 Sustainability and Economics: a Matter of Scale?......Page 126
7 Scales in Economic Theory......Page 144
8 Scaling Methods in Regional Integrated Assessments: from Points Upward and from Global Models Downwards......Page 158
9 Strategic Cyclical Scaling: Bridging Five Orders of Magnitude Scale Gaps in Climatic and Ecological Studies......Page 198
10 The Syndromes Approach to Scaling – Describing Global Change on an Intermediate Functional Scale......Page 224
11 Polycentric Integrated Assessment......Page 256
12 Emergent Properties of Scale in Global Environmental Modeling – Are There Any?......Page 282
13 Complexity and Scales: the Challenge for Integrated Assessment......Page 312
14 Scaling in Integrated Assessment: Problem or Challenge?......Page 348