Containing a collection of papers prepared for or inspired by the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment's (EFIFEA) Policy Workshop on Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessment, held from 12 - 19 July 2000, this volume presents the broad range of scaling issues relevant in Integrated Environmental Assessment. As such, it lays the foundation of further work in this important area of Integrated Assessment.
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State of the art report.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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1. Introduction -- 2. Geographic Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessments of Climate Change -- 3. Micro/Macro and Soft/Hard: Diverging and Converging Issues in the Physical and Social Sciences -- 4. Scale and Scope in Integrated Assessment Lessons from Ten Years with ICAM -- 5. Scaling Issues in the Social Sciences -- 6. Sustainability and Economics a Matter of Scale? -- 7. Scales in Economic Theory -- 8. Scaling Methods in Regional Integrated Assessments: From Points Upward and from Global Models Downwards -- 9. Strategic Cyclical Scaling: Bridging Five Orders of Magnitude Scale Gaps in Climatic and Ecological Studies -- 10. The Syndromes Approach to Scaling -- 11. Polycentric Integrated Assessment -- 12. Emergent Properties of Scale in Global Environmental Modeling -- Are There Any? -- 13. Complexity and Scales: The Challenge for Integrated Assessment -- 14. Scaling in Integrated Assessment: Problem or Challenge?