Integrated assessment

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A Multiple Perspective Approach

Integrated assessment is an avenue to explore opportunities and risks of social systems. It is a cross-disciplinary approach, combining, interpreting and communicating knowledge and information from diverse scientific disciplines and areas of practice. Its added value is a more comprehensive view on the issues involved than provided by mono-disciplinary and myopic professional approaches. Integrated assessment should offer policy makers useful information. It is an iterative process, whereby comprehensive scientific views are exchanged with policy- and decision-makers, who in turn produce input to the researchers involved. Therefore, it is a heuristic - and not a predictive - device for envisioning the future. Integrated assessment pays mainly attention to tricky ethical and governance problems.

Knowledge / Values	Certainty about knowledge	Uncertainty about knowledge
Consensus (competitive goals)	Manageable knowledge problems	(In-)tractable knowledge problems
Dissension (conflicting goals)	Tricky ethical problems	Tricky governance (policy) problems

Integrated assessment through policy exercises


For more details about integrative assessment and its application to the issue of Global Climate Change, see Chapter 10 of the book:

The Magic Circle: Principles of Gaming & Simulation

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