Integration

Assessments about the nature, rate, impacts and responses to climate change deal with change in coupled environmental-human systems. In making future projections of climate variability and change, mitigation and adaptation, assessments are therefore faced with making assumptions about the future social and economic changes, often over the long-term. In stand-alone assessments, the analyst will be free to develop appropriate, tailored scenarios. In complex cross-sectoral research programmes it is analytically useful to develop a set of common approaches and assumptions, which is one of the major objectives of this theme.

	IC02	Integral analysis of mitigation options within sectors and regions
	IC03	National adaptation strategies
	IC05	Cost-benefit analysis of adaptation and mitigation strategies
	IC08	PRObing a method to Facilitate the Interactive Linking of Expert knowledge to Stakeholder assessment (PROFILES)
	IC10	Communicating climate change: methods for revealing risks and opportunities
	IC11	Socio-economic scenario's for climate change assessments
	IC12	Institutions for adaptation: Is the Dutch insitutional structure capable of adapting to climate change?