Integrated Assessment

Integrated Assessment

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Publisher: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers

Integrated Assessment is the practice of combining different strands of 
knowledge to accurately represent and analyze real world problems of 
interest to decision-makers. Since these problems rarely observe 
disciplinary boundaries, Integrated Assessments usually involve 
interdisciplinary research. In addition, the body of existing knowledge 
is often insufficient for construction of an accurate representation of 
real world problems. 

Integrated Assessment offers a systematic approach to the identification 
of these interstices in disciplinary knowledge that have often frustrated 
analysis in the past. Thus, Integrated Assessments have increasingly been 
the source of new directions and critical questions to be answered by the 
disciplinary sciences. Ultimately, what distinguishes Integrated Assessment 
from disciplinary research is its policy dimension, aiming to inform 
decision-makers on the complexity of real world problems. 

The applications of Integrated Assessments are rapidly evolving beyond 
the problems to which they were first applied (e.g,. regional acid rain 
and global climate change) to include studies of: land use & land 
cover; water use; regional and local urban planning; and, healthcare. 
The Journal will cater to this bourgeoning field and the rapidly 
expanding scope of studies being conducted. 

ISSN 1389-5176 

Issued quarterly.

Integrated Assessment is available free of charge as an Open Access journal 
on the Internet.

Editors-in-Chief: Hadi Dowlatabadi and Jan Rotmans
Email: E-mail: ia@icis.unimaas.nl