Scaling in integrated assessment. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Jan Rotmans & Dale S. Rothman.
• Other Names: Rotmans, Jan, 1961-; Rothman, Dale S
• Contents: 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?
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (374 pages)
• Subjects: 577.27; Ecological assessment (Biology); Environmental health; Environmental monitoring -- Methodology; Environmental monitoring -- Evaluation; Environmental impact analysis; Scaling (Social sciences); Ecological assessment (Biology); Environmental health; Environmental impact analysis; Environmental monitoring -- Evaluation; Environmental monitoring -- Methodology; Scaling (Social sciences); Schaalmethoden; Klimaatveranderingen; Technologisch aspectenonderzoek; Sozialwissenschaften; Numerisches Modell; Skalierung; Umweltfaktor
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482287295; 1482287293
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