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Only a few laboratories in the world have taken the bold step to attempt the integration of sub-models of the climate system, the global biogeochemical cycles and the human/societal components.
This volume reports such a major undertaking and it is an important step towards an integrated approach to global change science. The IMAGE 2 model is important in demonstrating our current ability to model the complex global system.

Inhalt
Modeling the Global Society-Biosphere-Climate System: Part 1: Model Description and Testing.- Modeling the Global Society-Biosphere-Climate System: Part 2: Computed Scenarios.- Model for Calculating Regional Energy Use, Industrial Production and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Evaluating Global Climate Scenarios.- Determining the Potential Distribution of Vegetation, Crops and Agricultural Productivity.- Simulating Changes in Global Land Cover as Affected by Economic and Climatic Factors.- Simulating the Carbon Flux between the Terrestrial Environment and the Atmosphere.- Computing Land Use Emissions of Greenhouse Gases.- Atmospheric Composition Calculations for Evaluation of Climate Scenarios.- An Atmosphere-Ocean Model for Integrated Assessment of Global Change.- Author Index.