Experience from downscaling IPCC-SRES scenarios to specific national-level focus scenarios for ecosystem service management

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 21-32

  Walz, A ^a,b,c   Braendle, J M ^d   Lang, D J ^d,e   Brand, F ^d   Briner, S ^d   Elkin, C ^d   Hirschi, C ^d   Huber, R ^c   Lischke, H ^c   Schmatz, D R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Downscaling socio economic scenarios; Formalised scenario analysis; IPCC; Nested scenarios; Regional ecosystem service management

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; IPCC; NESTED SCENARIOS; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; DOWNSCALING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL PLANNING;

SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84901946155     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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