IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/jenpmg/v49y2006i2p301-307.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Downscaling climate models and environmental policy: From global to regional politics

Author

Listed:
  • Peter Jacques

Abstract

High resolution climate models of regions, or downscaling, promises to be at the forefront of future climate policy research. However, most research in this area is in the natural sciences, and the policy community has not taken full notice of this trend at their doorstep. Downscaling provides more concrete information about local impacts of climate change. This raises several important political issues surrounding extreme events, adaptation, risk and equity and legacy concerns, all of which are briefly addressed. The paper concludes with a call for more social science research on downscaling to accompany the rich geophysical science literature in the topic.

Suggested Citation

  • Peter Jacques, 2006. "Downscaling climate models and environmental policy: From global to regional politics," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(2), pages 301-307.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:49:y:2006:i:2:p:301-307
    DOI: 10.1080/09640560500508205
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09640560500508205
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09640560500508205?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Robert Mendelsohn (ed.), 2001. "Global Warming and the American Economy," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 2304, December.
    2. Thomas D. Beamish, 2002. "Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis," MIT Press Books, The MIT Press, edition 1, volume 1, number 0262523205, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ian Picketts & John Curry & Stephen Déry & Stewart Cohen, 2013. "Learning with practitioners: climate change adaptation priorities in a Canadian community," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 118(2), pages 321-337, May.
    2. Henrik Carlsen & Karl Dreborg & Per Wikman-Svahn, 2013. "Tailor-made scenario planning for local adaptation to climate change," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 18(8), pages 1239-1255, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Megan Ceronsky & David Anthoff & Cameron Hepburn & Richard S.J. Tol, 2005. "Checking The Price Tag On Catastrophe: The Social Cost Of Carbon Under Non-Linear Climate Response," Working Papers FNU-87, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Aug 2005.
    2. Koch, Hagen & Vögele, Stefan, 2009. "Dynamic modelling of water demand, water availability and adaptation strategies for power plants to global change," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(7), pages 2031-2039, May.
    3. Jayajit Chakraborty & Timothy W. Collins & Sara E. Grineski & Alejandra Maldonado, 2017. "Racial Differences in Perceptions of Air Pollution Health Risk: Does Environmental Exposure Matter?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-16, January.
    4. Seo, Sungno Niggol & Mendelsohn, Robert, 2007. "The impact of climate change on livestock management in Africa : a structural Ricardian analysis," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4279, The World Bank.
    5. Godwin Boateng, Festival, 2021. "A critique of overpopulation as a cause of pathologies in African cities: Evidence from building collapse in Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
    6. Attavanich, Witsanu, 2013. "The Effect of Climate Change on Thailand’s Agriculture," MPRA Paper 84005, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Feb 2014.
    7. Koch, Hagen & Vögele, Stefan, 2013. "Hydro-climatic conditions and thermoelectric electricity generation – Part I: Development of models," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 42-51.
    8. repec:aer:wpaper:342 is not listed on IDEAS
    9. Deborah McCarthy, 2011. "‘I’m a Normal Person’1," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 48(7), pages 1439-1455, May.
    10. repec:dau:papers:123456789/2622 is not listed on IDEAS
    11. Reza Fazeli & Brynhildur Davidsdottir & Jonas Hlynur Hallgrimsson, 2016. "Climate Impact On Energy Demand For Space Heating In Iceland," Climate Change Economics (CCE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 7(02), pages 1-23, May.
    12. Hagen Koch & Stefan Vögele & Michael Kaltofen & Uwe Grünewald, 2012. "Trends in water demand and water availability for power plants—scenario analyses for the German capital Berlin," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 110(3), pages 879-899, February.
    13. Attavanich, Witsanu, 2018. "How Is Climate Change Affecting Thailand’s Agriculture? A Literature Review with Policy Update," MPRA Paper 90255, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 12 Nov 2018.
    14. Thapa, Sridhar & Joshi, Ganesh Raj, 2010. "A Ricardian analysis of the climate change impact on Nepalese agriculture," MPRA Paper 29785, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Feb 2011.
    15. José Gustavo Féres & Eustáquio José Reis & Juliana Speranza, 2008. "Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on the Brazilian Agricultural Sector," Anais do XXXVI Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 36th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 200807181438190, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    16. Mansur, Erin T. & Mendelsohn, Robert & Morrison, Wendy, 2008. "Climate change adaptation: A study of fuel choice and consumption in the US energy sector," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 55(2), pages 175-193, March.
    17. Michael Scott & James Dirks & Katherine Cort, 2008. "The value of energy efficiency programs for US residential and commercial buildings in a warmer world," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 13(4), pages 307-339, May.
    18. Stasinopoulos, Georgios, 2009. "Economic impacts of climate change on cities: A survey of the existing literature," HWWI Policy Papers 1-18, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI).
    19. Dushmanta Dutta & Wendy Wright & Philip Rayment, 2011. "Synthetic impact response functions for flood vulnerability analysis and adaptation measures in coastal zones under changing climatic conditions: a case study in Gippsland coastal region, Australia," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 59(2), pages 967-986, November.
    20. Indur M. Goklany, 2003. "Relative Contributions of Global Warming to Various Climate Sensitive Risks, and Their Implications for Adaptation and Mitigation," Energy & Environment, , vol. 14(6), pages 797-822, November.
    21. Xu, Peng & Huang, Yu Joe & Miller, Norman & Schlegel, Nicole & Shen, Pengyuan, 2012. "Impacts of climate change on building heating and cooling energy patterns in California," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 44(1), pages 792-804.
    22. Robert Mendelsohn & Larry Williams, 2004. "Comparing Forecasts of the Global Impacts of Climate Change," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 9(4), pages 315-333, October.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:49:y:2006:i:2:p:301-307. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CJEP20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.