Image 2.0: Integrated Modeling of Global Climate Change

by Joseph Alcamo (Editor)

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.

470 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 30, 1994

About the author

Joseph Alcamo (born 1951) is a U.S. environmental scientist who served as Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) from 2009 to 2013.