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1 © The Integrated Assessment Society The Integrated Assessment Society Who we are and what we do? October 2008

2 © The Integrated Assessment Society What is TIAS? TIAS was founded in October 2003 The society’s goal is to promote the community of inter-disciplinary and disciplinary scientists, analysts and practitioners who develop and use Integrated Assessment (IA). The Society strives to nurture this community, to promote the development of IA and to encourage its wise application.

3 © The Integrated Assessment Society What is Integrated Assessment? What is Integrated Assessment? TIAS defines IA as the scientific "meta-discipline" that integrates knowledge about a problem domain and makes it available for societal learning and decision making processes.

4 © The Integrated Assessment Society What is IA used for? IA for managing: Environmental Impact Environmental Impact Risk Risk Complexity Complexity Uncertainty Uncertainty Climate Change Climate Change Institutional Change Institutional Change Sustainability Sustainability and more…. and more….

5 © The Integrated Assessment Society What Methods are used in IA? What Methods are used in IA? Institutional analysis Institutional analysis Actor analysis Actor analysis Participatory methods Participatory methods Integrated modelling Integrated modelling Uncertainty analysis Uncertainty analysis Scenario techniques Scenario techniques and many others… and many others…

6 © The Integrated Assessment Society TIAS Outreach Website: www.tias-web.info Website: www.tias-web.info Quarterly Newsletter Quarterly Newsletter Online Journal Integrated Assessment: www.iajonline.org Online Journal Integrated Assessment: www.iajonline.orgwww.iajonline.org Discussion Forum with Guest-in-residence (forthcoming) Discussion Forum with Guest-in-residence (forthcoming) Workshops and Conferences TIAS-GWSP Workshop 2007 and 2008: Global Assessments: Bridging Scales and Linking to Policy TIAS-GWSP Workshop 2007 and 2008: Global Assessments: Bridging Scales and Linking to Policy TIAS-EFIEA Conference 2005: Challenges for Integrated Assessment in a Fast Changing World TIAS-EFIEA Conference 2005: Challenges for Integrated Assessment in a Fast Changing World

7 © The Integrated Assessment Society TIAS Training Activities TIAS Summer Schools 2004: Integrated Assessment for Environmental Management 2004: Integrated Assessment for Environmental Management 2005: Stakeholder Participation and Modelling in Sustainable Resource Management 2005: Stakeholder Participation and Modelling in Sustainable Resource Management 2007: Transitions to Adaptive River Basin Management (jointly with NeWater Project and GWSP) 2007: Transitions to Adaptive River Basin Management (jointly with NeWater Project and GWSP) 2008: Managing Change – Methods and Tools for Adaptive River Basin Management (jointly with NeWater Project and GWSP) 2008: Managing Change – Methods and Tools for Adaptive River Basin Management (jointly with NeWater Project and GWSP)

8 © The Integrated Assessment Society TIAS Training Activities TIAS Courses 2005: Guidance for Uncertainty Assessment, Management and Communication 2005: Guidance for Uncertainty Assessment, Management and Communication 2007: Stakeholder Collaboration, Framing, Cognitive Mapping and Group Model Building (jointly with NeWater Project) 2007: Stakeholder Collaboration, Framing, Cognitive Mapping and Group Model Building (jointly with NeWater Project) 2007: Qualitative Research Methods (jointly with NeWater Project) 2007: Qualitative Research Methods (jointly with NeWater Project) 2008: Honing your Facilitation Skills (jointly with NeWater Project) 2008: Honing your Facilitation Skills (jointly with NeWater Project)

9 © The Integrated Assessment Society Other TIAS Activities Build exchange with complementary groups (International Environmental Modelling and Software Society - iEMSs, Global Water System Project, Resilience Alliance, etc) Build exchange with complementary groups (International Environmental Modelling and Software Society - iEMSs, Global Water System Project, Resilience Alliance, etc) Develop links to the policy community (UNEP, UN Commission on Sustainable Development, European Environment Agency, etc.) and inform on new conceptual developments (e.g. policy as learning, transition management) Develop links to the policy community (UNEP, UN Commission on Sustainable Development, European Environment Agency, etc.) and inform on new conceptual developments (e.g. policy as learning, transition management)

10 © The Integrated Assessment Society Join us www.tias-web.info © Photos courtesy of Jens Newig

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