TY - RPRT
T1 - Methodological Issues on Climate Change Mitigation Studies
T2 - Contributions from a Case Study
AU - Sørensen, Lene
AU - Borges, Pedro Castro
AU - Vidal, Rene Victor Valqui
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This paper uses national greenhouse gas emission abatement costing
studies as a case to discuss influential factors that determine
their outcome and achievement. Costing studies are seen as part of
an interconnected whole social process where actors (decision
makers, clients, facilitators, experts, etc.) interact to analyse
and solve important decision problems by applying methodologies. A
simple framework is used to identify several sources of
contradictions that may have a significant impact on studies
carried out in the single countries as well on the implementation
of abatement measures. Some methodological principles are
suggested to address such contradictions, structure, and change th
einteractions between the different dimensions of hte social
process framework. Two studies are mentioned in which ideas are
presented on how to deal with the central contradictions. Applying
such methodologies to case studies is seen as one way of improving
the chances of understanding and handling environmental problems
AB - This paper uses national greenhouse gas emission abatement costing
studies as a case to discuss influential factors that determine
their outcome and achievement. Costing studies are seen as part of
an interconnected whole social process where actors (decision
makers, clients, facilitators, experts, etc.) interact to analyse
and solve important decision problems by applying methodologies. A
simple framework is used to identify several sources of
contradictions that may have a significant impact on studies
carried out in the single countries as well on the implementation
of abatement measures. Some methodological principles are
suggested to address such contradictions, structure, and change th
einteractions between the different dimensions of hte social
process framework. Two studies are mentioned in which ideas are
presented on how to deal with the central contradictions. Applying
such methodologies to case studies is seen as one way of improving
the chances of understanding and handling environmental problems
M3 - Report
BT - Methodological Issues on Climate Change Mitigation Studies
ER -
