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Mapping the road ahead

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Research into climate change mitigation and adaptation has been hindered by a disconnect between climate science and socio-economic studies. The development of a new set of climate forcing pathways could prove to be the first step towards integrated analyses of policies and impacts.

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Figure 1: Conceptual diagram for the development of new, integrated scenarios of climate change.

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  1. Brian C. O'Neill and Vanessa Schweizer are at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA,

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