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Title

Perspectives on global change : the TARGETS approach / edited by Jan Rotmans and Bert de Vries.

Publication

Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Rotmans, Jan, 1961-
• De Vries, Bert.

Description

xv, 463 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm

Summary

"This book describes the structure, assumptions, philosophy and results of an advanced global integrated assessment model: TARGETS (Tool to Assess Regional and Global Environmental and health Targets for Sustainability). For a selective number of future directions, determined by different perspectives on how the world system functions and is managed, the model charts global implications in terms of population and health, energy, land- and water-use and biogeochemical cycles. By indicating to what extent these directions involve certain levels of risks, a circumspect appraisal is made as to whether the chosen future direction is sustainable or unsustainable. This integrated assessment approach has led to innovative fresh insights into global change."--BOOK JACKET. "The book will help policymakers formulate the strategies required for a sustainable global future. It will be of interest to a broad audience, from researchers and modellers of global change in science and social science, to policy analysts, decision makers and economists, and students of all aspects of global change."--Jacket.

Subject

• Global environmental change
• Changement climatique
• Développement durable
• Simulation
• Klimaänderung
• Modell
• Umweltveränderung
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Milieuverandering
• Menselijke invloed
• Duurzame ontwikkeling
• Klimaatveranderingen
• Simulatiemodellen
• CLIMATE CHANGE
• ENVIRONMENTS
• GLOBAL WARMING
• ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION
• Changement global de l'environnement

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-455) and index.

Contents

• 1. Global change and sustainable development / J. Rotmans, Marjolein B.A. van Asselt and Bert J.M. de Vries -- 2. Concepts / Jan Rotmans, Bert J.M. de Vries and Marjolein B.A. van Asselt -- 3. The TARGETS model / Jan Rotmans, Marjolein B.A. van Asselt and Bert J.M. de Vries [and others] -- 4. The Population and Health submodel / Louis W. Niessen and Henk B.M. Hilderink -- 5. The energy submodel: TIME / Bert J.M. de Vries and Marco A. Janssen -- 6. The water submodel: AQUA / Arjen Y. Hoekstra -- 7. The land and food submodel: TERRA / Bart J. Strengers, Michel G.J. den Elzen and Heko W. Koster -- 8. The biogeochemical submodel: CYCLES / Michel G.J. den Elzen, Arthur H.W. Beusen and Jan Rotmans [et al.] -- 9. Indicators for sustainable development / Jan Rotmans -- 10. Uncertainties in perspective / Marjolein B.A. van Asselt and Jan Rotmans -- 11. Towards integrated assessment of global change / Jan Rotmans, Bert J.M. de Vries and Marjolein B.A. van Asselt [et al.].
• 12. Population and health in perspective / Henk B.M. Hilderink and Marjolein B.A. van Asselt -- 13. Energy systems in transition / Bert J.M. de Vries, Arthur H.W. Beusen and Marco A. Janssen -- 14. Water in crisis? / Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Arthur H.W. Beusen and Henk B.M. Hilderink [and others] -- 15. Food for the future / Bart J. Strengers, Michel G.J. den Elzen and Heko W. Koster [et al.] -- 16. Human disturbance of the global biogeochemical cycles / Michel G.J. de Elzen, Arthur H.W. Beusen and Jan Rotmans [et al.] -- 17. The larger picture: utopian futures / Bert J.M. de Vries, Jan Rotmans and Arthur H.W. Beusen [et al.] -- 18. Uncertainty and risk: dystopian futures / Bert J.M. de Vries, Jan Rotmans and Henk B.M. Hilderink [et al.] -- 19. Global change: fresh insights, no simple answers / Bert J.M. de Vries, Jan Rotmans and Arthur H.W. Beusen [et al.].

ISBN

• 0521621763
• 9780521621762

LCCN

• 97229056
• ZBWT00766685

OCLC

• ocm38050801
• 38050801
• SCSB-8873594

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library