eprintid: 13975 rev_number: 5 eprint_status: archive userid: 5 dir: disk0/00/01/39/75 datestamp: 2016-11-18 10:27:24 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:28:04 status_changed: 2016-11-18 10:27:24 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Clark, W.C. creators_id: AL0572 title: Scales of climate impacts ispublished: pub divisions: prog_env abstract: Climates, ecosystems, and societies interact over a tremendous range of temporal and spatial scales. Scholarly work on climate impacts has tended to emphasize different questions, variables, and modes of explanation depending on the primary scale of interest. Much of the current debate on cause and effect, vulnerability, marginality, and the like stems from uncritical or unconscious efforts to transfer experience, conclusions, and insights across scales. This paper sketches a perspective from which the relative temporal and spatial dimensions of climatic, ecological, and social processes can be more clearly perceived, and their potential interactions more critically evaluated. Quantitative estimates of a variety of characteristic scales are derived and compared, leading to specific recommendations for the design of climate impact studies. date: 1985-03 date_type: published publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers id_number: 10.1007/BF00139438 iiasa_bibref: A longer version of this paper (Clark, 1985), with complete documentation of data sources, was presented at the Social Science Research Council's Conference on Forecasting in the Social and Natural Sciences (Boulder, Colorado, June 10–13, 1984). creators_browse_id: 1815 full_text_status: none publication: Climatic Change volume: 7 number: 1 pagerange: 5-27 refereed: TRUE issn: 0165-0009 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: Clark, W.C. (1985). Scales of climate impacts. Climatic Change 7 (1) 5-27. 10.1007/BF00139438 .