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|Application=OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 (2012) project; Roads from Rio+20 (2012) project; Beyond 2015 (2009) project;
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|Model-Database=GUAM model; World Bank database; FAOSTAT database; WHO database;
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|KeyReference=Hilderink and Lucas, 2008; PBL, 2012; PBL, 2009;
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|OutputVar=Child mortality; Life expectancy; DALYs (disability-adjusted life years); Access to drinking water and sanitation; HDI (human development index); Child underweight; Prevalence of undernourishment; People living on less then USD 1.25 per day;
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|Description=The quantity and quality of accessible environmental resources determine the viability of livelihoods. Unequal access to, and diminished quality of resources have a significant effect on livelihoods and on human health, particularly in developing countries. Increasing world population accompanied by rising demand for food, water and energy will put even more pressure on scarce natural resources, such as fertile land, potable water and forest resources. The pressure will be even greater in areas where natural resources are not well managed and or where degraded as a result of global environmental change.
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On all scales from global UN processes to local initiatives, decision makers are concerned with improving the standard of living and human development. The IMAGE framework provides valuable insights into key environmental factors that affect human development, and how these impacts may be reduced by improving the natural environment.
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In the IMAGE framework, the Global Integrated Sustainability Model ([[GISMO model|GISMO]]) quantifies changes in human development, including access to food, water and energy, and the impact of economic, social and environmental changes (Hilderink and Lucas, 2008). The model includes the Human Development Index (HDI), population health measures (e.g. child mortality and life expectancy), and many indicators for the Millennium Development Goals ({{abbrTemplate|MDGs}}).
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Those parts of GISMO directly linked to other parts of IMAGE, are namely climate-related health risks, health problems related to urban and indoor air pollution, and the effects of malnutrition.
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|Application=OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 (2012);
 
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|IMAGEComponent=Energy demand; Agricultural economy and forestry; Emissions;
 
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|KeyReference=Hilderink and Lucas, 2008; PBL, 2012;
 
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|Reference=Hilderink and Lucas, 2008;
 
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|InputVar=Temperature; Precipitation; Black and Organic Carbon, SO2, NOx emissions; Food availability per capita; Urbanisation; GINI coefficient; GDP per capita; People dependent on solid fuel;
 
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|OutputVar=Access to food, water and energy; Child mortality; Life expectancy; Human Development Index (HDI); Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
 
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|Description=The environment is important for human development and quality of life, especially for people in developing countries. People’s livelihoods are based on the quantity and quality of the resources they have access to. Unequal access and diminished resource quality have an unequivocal effect on these livelihoods, with negative health impacts as one of the main factors. As seen in the preceding sections, rising demand for food, water and energy will put pressure on scarce natural resources, such as fertile land, potable water and forest resources. The provision of food, water, and energy becomes more difficult when these natural resources are not properly managed or when they degrade due to global environmental change.
 
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The Global Integrated Sustainability Model ([[GISMO model]]) addresses (changes in) human development, including the distribution of access to sanitation, food and energy, and of the related changes in economic, social and environmental areas ([[Hilderink and Lucas, 2008]]). Among other things, the model quantifies human development in terms of access to food, water and energy, the Human Development Index ([[HDI]]), Population Health measures (e.g. child mortality and life expectancy), and many indicators of the Millennium Development Goals ([[MDG|MDGs]]).
 
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Here we concentrate on those parts of GISMO that link directly to other parts of the main IMAGE model, namely climate-related health risks, health problems related to urban and indoor air pollution, and the effects of malnutrition. On all scales, from global UN processes to local initiatives, decision-makers are concerned with improving the standard of living and human development. The IMAGE framework provides valuable insights into key environmental factors that affect human development, and how these impacts may be reduced by improving the natural environment.
 
 
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Revision as of 10:59, 1 July 2014

link to framework components overview

Parts of Human development

  1. Introduction page
  2. Model description
  3. Policy issues
  4. Data, uncertainty and limitations
  5. Overview of references
Component is implemented in:
Components:
Related IMAGE components
Projects/Applications
Models/Databases
Key publications
GISMO model to assess human development in IMAGE 3.0
Flowchart Human development. See also the Input/Output Table on the introduction page.

Key policy issues

  • What are the key future trends in human development, such as those targeted by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
  • How are changes in the global environment likely to affect human development?
  • How is improved access to food, water and energy likely to contribute to human development?

Introduction

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