Integrated Regional Assessment of Global Climate Change
Integrated Regional Assessment (IRA) promotes a better understanding of how regions contribute to global environmental change. This book provides a detailed treatment of the methodological challenges of IRA and a set of international examples illustrating the practice of such assessments at the regional scale. The first nine chapters address questions of scale, uncertainty, quantitative versus qualitative approaches, and particular conceptual frameworks for IRA evaluation. The next five...
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Integrated Regional Assessment (IRA) promotes a better understanding of how regions contribute to global environmental change. This book provides a detailed treatment of the methodological challenges of IRA and a set of international examples illustrating the practice of such assessments at the regional scale. The first nine chapters address questions of scale, uncertainty, quantitative versus qualitative approaches, and particular conceptual frameworks for IRA evaluation. The next five chapters illustrate a range of IRA activities combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in innovative ways. The final five chapters review IRA as a process from an implementation perspective. This volume is the culmination of the START/CIRA/IHDP initiative: a collection of international research programs, including the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). The book is an important resource for researchers and policymakers in environmental science and policy.
The authors viiForeword Andreas Rechkemmer xiii1 Integrated regional assessment C. Gregory Knight Jill Jäger 12 Integrated regional assessment: overview and framework Brent Yarnal 293 Integrated regional assessment: qualitative and quantitative issues Elizabeth L. Malone 504 Scale and scalar dynamics in integrated regional assessments Colin Polsky Darla K. Munroe 685 Uncertainty management in integrated regional assessments Marjolein B.A. van Asselt 906 Vulnerability of people, places, and systems to environmental change Neil Leary Sara Beresford 1177 Integrating climate change adaptation into sustainable development Thea Dickinson Livia Bizikova Ian Burton 1508 Stakeholders in integrated regional assessment Ann Fisher Bernd Kasemir 1609 A framework for integrated regional assessment C. Gregory Knight Ann Fisher CIRA Team 18610 The global context of integrated regional assessment Jill Jäger 19911 The Asia-Pacific integrated model Mikiko Kainuma Yuzuru Matsuoka Tsuneyuki Morita Kiyoshi Takahashi 21412 Integrated regional assessment for South Asia: a case study P.R. Shukla Amit Garg Subash Dhar 23113 Climate change and regional sustainability in the Yangtze Delta, China Yongyuan Yin 25514 From Climpacts to SimCLIM: development of an integrated assessment model system Richard Warrick 28015 Why regional and spatial specificity is needed in environmental assessments Rik Leemans 31216 The SARCS integrated study of Southeast Asia: research and assessment with networks Louis Lebel 33217 Institutions for collaborative environmental research in the Americas: a case study of the Inter-American Institute forGlobal Change (IAI) Diana Liverman 35218 The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program: crafting effective assessments for the long haul Roger S. Pulwarty Caitlin Simpson Claudia R. Nierenberg 36719 Integrated regional assessment: reflections on the state of the art Jill Jäger C. Gregory Knight 394Index 405
