Can Earth's and Society's Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?: Summary of a Workshop (2014)
Chapter: Appendix C: Acronyms
| BMI |
body mass index |
| EPA |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| GCAM |
Global Change Assessment Model |
| GDP |
gross domestic product |
| HANPP |
Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity |
| IDA |
International Development Association |
| IIASA |
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
| IPAT |
impact, population, affluence, and technology model |
| IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| iPETS |
integrated Population-Economy-Technology-Science Model |
| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NRC |
National Research Council |
| PIES |
Population-Inequality-Environmental and Economic Sustainability Model |
| RCP |
representative concentration pathway |
| SRES |
Special Report Emissions Scenarios |
| SSP |
shared socioeconomic pathway |
| STIRPAT |
Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology Model |
