A way out of the credibility crisis of models used in integrated environmental assessment.
Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) have been widely used in environmental policy making because they simulate natural and socio-economic systems by integrating knowledge derived from a wide range of disciplines. The current IAMs have been found to be limited due to their inability to display both t...
| Publicado en: | Futures Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 133 - 147 |
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Elsevier Science
March 2002
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| Sumario: | Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) have been widely used in environmental policy making because they simulate natural and socio-economic systems by integrating knowledge derived from a wide range of disciplines. The current IAMs have been found to be limited due to their inability to display both the value-laden nature of the assumptions that underlie the model and the uncertainties in their outputs. A Post-Normal Science approach is required for dealing with these issues, involving participation of 'extended peer communities' providing their 'extended facts'. Copyright (c) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd |
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