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Discussion: Research Priorities
Pages 23-27

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... LINKING VULNERABILITY, IMPACTS, AND ADAPTATION Research WITH MITIGATION AND CLIMATE MODELING Increasing agreement is emerging that mitigation and adaptation policies and research cannot be treated separately from one another. The two are tightly linked in the context of broad tradeoffs in both macrolevel climate response strategies and more localized decision contexts, such as infrastructure, transportation, and land use planning.
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... Innovative approaches will be required to overcome data limitations. DEVELOPING RISK APPROACHES Participants observed that decision makers are coming to accept that climate change is a risk management problem, which implies a need to attend more to events that have low probabilities of occurrence, but can produce dramatic impacts if they do occur.
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From page 25...
... Some decision makers are becoming more interested in these low-probability, high-impact risks. In addition, indications that prior earth system models grossly underestimated the uncertainty bounds of rapid and large-scale phenomena, such as ice sheet melting, suggest that more attention is merited by other extreme events to which low estimated probabilities have been previously assigned.
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... STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT Some workshop participants expressed concern that it may be necessary to balance tradeoffs between research coordination and stakeholder participation. Stakeholders and implementation communities are sometimes included early and intensively in research project development without sufficient forethought or caution.
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... To make these connections, researchers in the field of vulnerability, impacts and adaptation need to be clear and articulate in communicating the broad range of variables that must be included for effective, integrated, quantitative models, recognizing that appropriate inputs may vary for particular decision support goals and users. Participants noted several specific research areas in need of attention and synthesis: • Identify specific outputs needed from biogeochemical models of climate change as inputs to analyses of vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation.
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