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Framework for integrated assessments of global warming impacts

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This paper provides a framework for integrated assessment of the impacts of climate change on natural resources and sets the stage for papers that follow in this volume. Integrated assessments are used to organize large quantities of technical information bearing on complex issues (environmental and others) in ways that facilitate application of the information in decision making and policy setting. Any integrated assessment must be based on the best available information. For that reason this paper includes a ‘primer’ on the current (and presumably best available) understanding of the science underlying climatic change. The remainder of the paper describes the component parts of one possible framework for integrated assessment.

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    Norman J. Rosenberg

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Mendelsohn, R., Rosenberg, N.J. Framework for integrated assessments of global warming impacts. Climatic Change 28, 15–44 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01094099

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