Journal article

Socio-economic data for global environmental change research

Ilona M Otto, Anne Biewald, Dim Coumou, Georg Feulner, Claudia Köhler, Thomas Nocke, Anders Blok, Albert Gröber, Sabine Selchow, David Tyfield, Ingrid Volkmer, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Ulrich Beck

Nature Climate Change | Springer Science and Business Media LLC | Published : 2015

Abstract

Subnational socio-economic datasets are required if we are to assess the impacts of global environmental changes and to improve adaptation responses. Institutional and community efforts should concentrate on standardization of data collection methodologies, free public access, and geo-referencing.

University of Melbourne Researchers