Latin America exhibits one of the highest rates of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES)
loss worldwide along with a remarkable asymmetry in the access to ES benefits (ecosystem …

This essay is a review of the recent literature on the methodology of economics, with a focus
on three broad trends that have defined the core lines of research within the discipline …

Climate change adaptation is largely a local matter, and adaptation planning can benefit
from local climate change projections. Such projections are typically generated by accepting …

Models and theories are of central importance in science, and scientists spend substantial
amounts of time building, testing, comparing and revising models and theories. It is therefore …

We present PolicyCLOUD: a prototype for an extensible serverless cloud-based system that
supports evidence-based elaboration and analysis of policies. PolicyCLOUD allows flexible …

As the impacts of climate change increase, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
advises that global migration will also increase. A deeper understanding of the factors and …

The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends argues that
economic phenomena can be examined from five analytical levels: a statistical descriptive …

In this dissertation, I place macroeconometric modeling at the center of the history of
twentieth century macroeconomics, ie as a history of macroeconometrics, and ask two …

Whether economics warrants public trust depends on the extent to which assertions by
economists can be deemed credible. Three examples from microeconomics are examined …

We formulate and elicit Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) for assessing possible
characteristics of the 2030 German new passenger car fleet, including market shares of …