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Socio-economic futures in climate change impact assessment: using scenarios as 'learning machines'

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posted on 2023-06-08, 07:32 authored by Frans Berkhout, Julia Hertin, Andrew Jordan
Climate impact assessment needs to take account of two interrelated processes: socio-economic change and climate change. To date, future change in socio-economic systems has not been sufficiently integrated with an analysis of climate change impacts. Participative and synthetic scenario approaches offer a means for dealing with critical issues of indeterminacy, innovation, reflexivity and framing in analysing change in socio-economic systems, paving the way for a coherent way of handling of socio-economic futures in impact assessment. We argue that scenarios represent heuristic tools that encourage social learning in climate impact assessment. The advantages and disadvantages of a scenario-based approach are explored using examples from regional climate impact assessment in the UK.

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  • Published

Journal

Global Environmental Change

ISSN

0959-3780

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

12

Page range

83-95

Pages

13.0

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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