Geographic Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessments of Climate Change

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  • Thomas J. Wilbanks

Keywords:

scale, multi-scale analysis, cross-scale dynamics, integrated assessment, place-based analysis, nature-society integration, sustainability science.

Abstract

Geographic scale matters in integrated assessments of global climate change issues, but incorporating a variety of scales and crossscale dynamics in integrated assessment modeling requires confronting a number of conceptual and operational challenges, including upscaling, downscaling, tracing out cross-scale relationships, and multi-scale synthesis.

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