BBAuthors: Rohat, G.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2017)
The overwhelming majority of integrated assessments of future climate risks are made using climate scenarios and projections superimposed on current socio-economic conditions only; hence they fail to account for the influence of socio-economic changes. Following the recent IPCC-related new scenarios framework for climate change research, a few assessments of climate risks have attempted to integrate socio-economic changes through the combination of climate and socio-economic scenarios. However, a number of shortcomings remain, such as the lack of consideration of vulnerability, the low spatial resolution, and the lack of contextual focus. In this paper, we seek to examine these shortc...