Call for papers: Stakeholder-Engaged Integrated Assessment Modelling for Global Scenarios in a Changing World

A call for abstracts is now open for a Special Issue on Frontiers in Environmental Science on the research topic “Stakeholder-Engaged Integrated Assessment Modelling for Global Scenarios in a Changing World”.

This Research Topic deepens and broadens our collective understanding of the role of stakeholder engagement in IAM and scenario development processes with the goal of raising their quality and their research and policy impact. It tackles the urgent need to improve upon well-established climate change IAM-scenario frameworks to incorporate new important issues and contexts, enhance stakeholder and policymaker relevance by considering factors and sectors other than those directly related to climate change, and better capture the role of uncertainty. There is a particular need to capture more diverse perspectives and voices, particularly from outside of academic and policy elite circles in Europe and the United States.

This Research Topic elevates analyses of both the development processes and the expansion of topical considerations in global scenarios and IAMs. We invite contributions for papers in this collection that:

• present models or case studies of the development, use, and evaluation of participatory stakeholder engagement methods and tools in the global scenarios and IAM development that generated productive, critical, and flexible dialog and decision-making;
• explore how the dynamics of those ‘in the room’ matter for transparent and constructive group processes that incorporate inputs from various stakeholders and include diverse perspectives in the scenario and IAM development;
• describe innovations in sectoral and topical considerations in IAMs and scenarios beyond climate mitigation, such as the development and use of simpler IAMs to complement larger IAMs, and considerations of deep uncertainty.

This Research Topic welcomes the following types of manuscripts: Brief Research Report, General Commentary, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Original Research, Perspective, Policy and Practice Reviews, Policy Brief, Review, Systematic Review, Community Case Study, and Conceptual Analysis.

Topic editors: Jeffrey M Bielicki, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Sibel Eker, Sarah Elisabeth Cornell.

Keywords: Scenario Development, Participatory Engagement, Integrated Assessment Modelling, Stakeholder Engagement, Deep Uncertainty, Complementary Modelling

Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.

Application deadline: 3 September 2022

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