BMI |
body mass index |
EPA |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
GCAM |
Global Change Assessment Model |
GDP |
gross domestic product |
HANPP |
Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity |
IDA |
International Development Association |
IIASA |
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
IPAT |
impact, population, affluence, and technology model |
IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
iPETS |
integrated Population-Economy-Technology-Science Model |
NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NRC |
National Research Council |
PIES |
Population-Inequality-Environmental and Economic Sustainability Model |
RCP |
representative concentration pathway |
SRES |
Special Report Emissions Scenarios |
SSP |
shared socioeconomic pathway |
STIRPAT |
Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology Model |