Enhancing the relevance of global shared socio-economic pathways for climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation research
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Sub-type Journal article Author van Ruijven, Bas J.
Levy, Marc A.
Agrawal, Arun
Biermann, Frank
Birkmann, Joern
Carter, Timothy R.
Ebi, Kristie L.
Garschagen, Matthias
Jones, Bryan
Jones, Roger
Kemp-Benedict, Eric
Kok, Marcel
Kok, Kasper
Lemos, Maria Carmen
Lucas, Paul L.
Orlove, Ben
Pachauri, Shonali
Parris, Tom M.
Patwardhan, Anand
Petersen, Arthur
Preston, Benjamin L.
Ribot, Jesse
Rothman, Dale S.
Schweizer, Vanessa J.Title Enhancing the relevance of global shared socio-economic pathways for climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation research Appearing in Climatic Change Volume 122 Issue No. 3 Publication Date 2013 Place of Publication Dordrecht Publisher Springer Start page 481 End page 494 Language eng Abstract This paper discusses the role and relevance of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) and the new scenarios that combine SSPs with representative concentration pathways (RCPs) for climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability (IAV) research. It first provides an overview of uses of social–environmental scenarios in IAV studies and identifies the main shortcomings of earlier such scenarios. Second, the paper elaborates on two aspects of the SSPs and new scenarios that would improve their usefulness for IAV studies compared to earlier scenario sets: (i) enhancing their applicability while retaining coherence across spatial scales, and (ii) adding indicators of importance for projecting vulnerability. The paper therefore presents an agenda for future research, recommending that SSPs incorporate not only the standard variables of population and gross domestic product, but also indicators such as income distribution, spatial population, human health and governance.
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