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Johanna Alkan Olsson. Foto.

Johanna Alkan Olsson

Universitetslektor

Johanna Alkan Olsson. Foto.

Uncertainty analysis in integrated assessment: the users’ perspective. Regional Environmental Change

Författare

  • Silke Gabbert
  • Martin Van Ittersum
  • Carolien Kroeze
  • Serge Stalpers
  • Frank Ewert
  • Johanna Alkan Olsson

Summary, in English

Integrated Assessment (IA) models aim at providing information- and decision-support to complex problems. This paper argues that uncertainty analysis in IA models should be user-driven in order to strengthen science–policy interaction. We suggest an approach to uncertainty analysis that starts with investigating model users’ demands for uncertainty information. These demands are called “uncertainty information needs”. Identifying model users’ uncertainty information needs allows focusing the analysis on those uncertainties which users consider relevant and meaningful. As an illustrative example, we discuss the case of examining users’ uncertainty information needs in the SEAMLESS Integrated Framework (SEAMLESS-IF), an IA model chain for assessing and comparing alternative agricultural and environmental policy options. The most important user group of SEAMLESS-IF are policy experts at the European and national level. Uncertainty information needs of this user group were examined in an interactive process during the development of SEAMLESS-IF and by using a questionnaire. Results indicate that users’ information requirements differed from the uncertainty categories considered most relevant by model developers. In particular, policy experts called for addressing a broader set of uncertainty sources (e.g. model structure and technical model setup). The findings highlight that investigating users’ uncertainty information needs is an essential step towards creating confidence in an IA model and its outcomes. This alone, however, may not be sufficient for effectively implementing a user-oriented uncertainty analysis in such models. As the case study illustrates, it requires to include uncertainty analysis into user participation from the outset of the IA modelling process.

Avdelning/ar

  • LUCSUS

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

131-143

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Regional Environmental Change

Volym

10

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • SEAMLESS Integrated Framework
  • Uncertainty information needs
  • Integrated Assessment models
  • Effective uncertainty analysis
  • Science-policy interaction

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1436-3798