This paper discusses the major tenets of ecological economics—including value pluralism,
methodological pluralism and multi-criteria policy assessment. Ecological economics offers …

This paper briefly outlines the basic science of climate change, as well as the IPCC
assessments on emissions scenarios and climate impacts, to provide a context for the topic …

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) of climate change combine dynamic descriptions of
the energy‐economy system, the climate system, and climate impacts to support the …

Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which states the
treaty's long-term objective, is the subject of a growing literature that examines means to …

Understanding the complex, dynamic, and non-linear relationships between human
activities, the environment and the evolution of the climate is pivotal for policy design and …

This paper presents a few of the research tools of modern physics that can successfully be
used to achieve a better understanding of the temporal and spatial variability of the multi …

Traditional impact models combine exposure in the form of scenarios and sensitivity in the
form of parameters, providing potential impacts of global change as model outputs …

A characteristic of the present global ecological situation is increasing instability or—put
another way—a crisis in the civilization system, the global scale of which is expressed …

Uncertainty and variability are key challenges for climate change adaptation planning. In the
face of uncertainty, decision-making can be addressed in two interdependent stages: make …

The problem of global environmental change is the subject of global ecoinformatics in the
context of which information technologies have been developed to ensure the combined use …