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display_name: "Chapter 4: Capabilities for Developing US Population Scenarios (in 'Towards Scenarios of U.S. Demographic Change: Workshop Report')"
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  - display_name: '4.1: Characterizations of the future'
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  - display_name: '4.2: Qualitative descriptions of the SSPs'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usgcrp-towards-scenarios-us-demographic-change-workshop-report-2015/chapter/capabilities-developing-us-population-scenarios/figure/qualitative-descriptions-ssps.yaml
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  - display_name: '4.3: A crosswalk of the SSPs and the RCPs'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usgcrp-towards-scenarios-us-demographic-change-workshop-report-2015/chapter/capabilities-developing-us-population-scenarios/figure/crosswalk-ssps-rcps.yaml
    uri: /report/usgcrp-towards-scenarios-us-demographic-change-workshop-report-2015/chapter/capabilities-developing-us-population-scenarios/figure/crosswalk-ssps-rcps
  - display_name: '4.4: Projection feasibility by population characteristic and geographic resolution'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usgcrp-towards-scenarios-us-demographic-change-workshop-report-2015/chapter/capabilities-developing-us-population-scenarios/figure/projection-feasibility-population-characteristic-geographic-resolution.yaml
    uri: /report/usgcrp-towards-scenarios-us-demographic-change-workshop-report-2015/chapter/capabilities-developing-us-population-scenarios/figure/projection-feasibility-population-characteristic-geographic-resolution
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findings: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usgcrp-towards-scenarios-us-demographic-change-workshop-report-2015/chapter/capabilities-developing-us-population-scenarios.yaml
identifier: capabilities-developing-us-population-scenarios
number: 4
report_identifier: usgcrp-towards-scenarios-us-demographic-change-workshop-report-2015
tables: []
title: Capabilities for Developing US Population Scenarios
uri: /report/usgcrp-towards-scenarios-us-demographic-change-workshop-report-2015/chapter/capabilities-developing-us-population-scenarios
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