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|Overview=Framework overview; Policy interventions and components overview; Key policy issues overview;
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|Description=As indicated in the previous chapter, integrated assessment models, such as IMAGE, have established themselves as powerful tool to study future development of complex, large-scale environmental and sustainable development issues. There are at least two key reasons for this:
|Description=Integrated assessment models, such as the IMAGE framework, are established as powerful tools in assessing complex, large-scale environmental and sustainable development issues. As many of these issues are closely interlinked, integrated models are needed to analyse the consequences of these linkages, and the substantial inertia in the human-environment system can only be captured in long-term scenarios. Here, an overview of the IMAGE framework and its use in assessing long-term environmental and human future is presented.
# many of these issues are strongly interlinked and integrated models can capture important consequences of these linkages;
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#substantial inertia is an inherent property of these problems, which can only be captured using long-term scenarios.  
The IMAGE 3.0 model represents one such integrated assessment framework. In this chapter the model framework is presented briefly, but comprehensively, to provide an overview of how it is and can be used to assess long-term environmental and human futures.
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Revision as of 14:49, 23 June 2014

Key policy issues

  • How could global environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss and air pollution evolve?
  • What are the consequences of these changes for international targets for biodiversity protection (addressed by the CBD), climate change (UNFCCC) and human development (addressed by the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals)?
  • How could response strategies limit environmental pressures and foster more sustainable development?
  • What are the linkages between components of environmental change and human development? What are key uncertainties?

Introduction