Enhancing the relevance of shared socioeconomic pathways for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research

van Ruijven, B.J., Levy, M.A., Biermann, F., & Pachauri, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-3178 (2014). Enhancing the relevance of shared socioeconomic pathways for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research. Climatic Change 122 (3) 481-494. 10.1007/s10584-013-0931-0.

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Research Programs:	Energy (ENE)
Bibliographic Reference:	Climatic Change; 122(3):481-494 (February 2014) (Published online 18 September 2013)
Depositing User:	IIASA Import
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2016 08:51
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 17:24
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/11014

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