Relationship of scenarios to other ways of thinking about the future

Figure 1.

This figure appears in chapter 1 of the Need and Options for Subnational Scale Land-Use and Land-Cover Scenarios for the United States report.

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When citing this figure, please reference Carter, T. R., R. N. Jones, X. Lu, S. Bhadwal, C. Conde, L. O. Mearns, B. C. O’Neill, M. D. A. Rounsevell and M. B. Zurek, 2007: New Assessment Methods and the Characterisation of Future Conditions. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M. L. Parry, O. F. Canziani, J. P. Palutikof, P. J. van der Linden and C. E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 133-171.

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