Berk M ,
Hordijk L ,
Hisschemoller M ,
Kok MTJ ,
Liefferink D ,
Swarts RJ ,
Tuinstra W
119 p
in Dutch
1999
Toon Nederlands
English Abstract This report describes the findings of the 'COOL interim
phase'. COOL (Climate OptiOns for the Long term) is an integrated
assessment project to explore long-term options for climate change policy in
the Netherlands in a European and global context. COOL aims at providing
information to decision makers by synthesising and utilising available
scientific knowledge from different disciplines, methodologies and data. It
also intends to test the social dialogue with various stakeholders as a
component of integrated assessment activities. Within NOP, this project is
intended to represent a major integration effort and to stimulate the
dialogue on the outcome of ten years of climate change research. Since
in-depth preparation is needed for such a project, an Interim phase was set
up, in which particular attention has been paid to the design aspects of a
dialogue between science, policy and society. Utilising knowledge and
managing information (how to present and provide scientific and other
knowledge in the dialogues) also received focus. Furthermore, a scheme to
be followed in evaluating the COOL project for its contribution to
methodology development in integrated assessment is
described.
