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Describing Socioeconomic Futures for Climate Change Research and Assessment : Report of a Workshop by Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Research and Assessment, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"The implications of climate change for the environment and society depend on the rate and magnitude of climate change, but also on changes in technology, economics, lifestyles, and policy that will affect the capacity both for limiting and adapting to climate change. Describing Socioeconomic Futures for Climate Change Research and Assessment reviews the state of science for considering socioeconomic changes over long time frames and clarifies definitions and concepts to facilitate communication across research communities. The book also explores driving forces and key uncertainties that will affect impacts, adaptation, vulnerability and mitigation in the future. Furthermore, it considers research needs and the elements of a strategy for describing socioeconomic and environmental futures for climate change research and assessment. Describing Socioeconomic Futures for Climate Change Research and Assessment explores the current state of science in scenario development and application, asserting that while little attention has been given to preparing quantitative and narrative socioeconomic information, advances in computing capacity are making development of such probabilistic scenar
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- Author
- Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Research and Assessment, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780309161442
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Physics, Stem
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