General support for integrated assessment research. Final report

Dowlatabadi, Hadi

Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Department of Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)

关键词: Research Programs;    Socio-Economic Factors;    Progress Report;    Climatic Change;    54 Environmental Sciences;   

DOI  :  10.2172/809185
RP-ID  :  DOE/ER/62105-1
RP-ID  :  FG02-95ER62105
RP-ID  :  809185

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

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.