Vanessa Schweizer
University of Waterloo
39 Papers
94 Citations
Vanessa Schweizer is an academic researcher from University of Waterloo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 34 publications. Previous affiliations of Vanessa Schweizer include National Center for Atmospheric Research & Carnegie Mellon University.
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Papers
Decisions to reduce greenhouse gases from agriculture and product transport: LCA case study of organic and conventional wheat
TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid life cycle assessment is conducted to compare the global warming potential (GWP) and primary energy use of conventional and organic wheat production and delivery in the US.
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Enhancing the relevance of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research
Bas van Ruijven,Marc A. Levy,Arun Agrawal,Frank Biermann,Joern Birkmann,Timothy R. Carter,Kristie L. Ebi,Matthias Garschagen,Bryan D. Jones,Roger Jones,Eric Kemp-Benedict,Marcel Kok,Kasper Kok,Maria Carmen Lemos,Paul L. Lucas,Ben Orlove,Shonali Pachauri,Thomas M. Parris,Anand Patwardhan,Arthur C. Petersen,Arthur C. Petersen,Benjamin L. Preston,Jesse C. Ribot,Dale S. Rothman,Vanessa Schweizer +24 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role and relevance of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) and the new scenarios that combine SSPs with representative concentration pathways (RCPs) for climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability (IAV) research.
Systematic construction of global socioeconomic pathways using internally consistent element combinations
TL;DR: This study identifies 13 determinants of mitigation and adaptation challenges at a globally aggregated scale based on a survey of 25 experts and uses 19 expert elicitations and a cross-impact balance analysis to create approximately 1.5 million combinations of trends for these determinants and rank them in terms of internal consistency.
Improving environmental change research with systematic techniques for qualitative scenarios
Vanessa Schweizer,Elmar Kriegler +1 more
TL;DR: Using this method, it is found that the four principal storylines employed in the SRES scenarios vary widely in internal consistency, which concludes that systematic techniques like CIB analysis hold promise for improving scenario development in global change research.
Scenario processes for socio-environmental systems analysis of futures: A review of recent efforts and a salient research agenda for supporting decision making
Sondoss Elsawah,Sondoss Elsawah,Serena H. Hamilton,Serena H. Hamilton,Anthony Jakeman,Dale S. Rothman,Vanessa Schweizer,Evelina Trutnevyte,Henrik Carlsen,Crystal Drakes,Bob Frame,Baihua Fu,Céline Guivarch,Marjolijn Haasnoot,Eric Kemp-Benedict,Kasper Kok,Hannah Kosow,Michael J. Ryan,Hedwig van Delden +18 more
TL;DR: The essential challenges for SES include enhancing the role of stakeholder and public engagement in the co-development of scenarios, linking scenarios across multiple geographical, sectoral and temporal scales, and improving the links between the qualitative and quantitative aspects of scenario analysis.
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