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Integrated Assessment Modelling

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Book cover Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research ((AGLO,volume 1))

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The increasing mutual interplay between social, economic, and environmental issues demands integrated policies. Despite an early history of isolated regulatory initiatives related to for instance air, water, and soil over the past two decades, environmental policies have become increasingly integrated. Nevertheless, this is only a first step towards further integration of environmental, social and economic policies. The complexity of the pressing issues, like global climate change, demands an integrated approach to ensure that key interactions, feedbacks and effects are not inadvertently omitted from the analysis. The various pieces of the complex puzzle can no longer be examined in isolation. Integrated Assessment (IA) aims to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, thereby indicating priorities for policy.

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  1. International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Pim Martens  & Jan Rotmans  & 

  2. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Environmental, Science and Engineering, Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Darco Jansen

  3. Department of Mathematics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Koos Vrieze

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Rotmans, J., van Asselt, M. (1999). Integrated Assessment Modelling. In: Martens, P., Rotmans, J., Jansen, D., Vrieze, K. (eds) Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47982-6_7

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