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About The Integrated Assessment Society (TIAS)

The Integrated Assessment Society (TIAS) is a not-for-profit-entity created to promote the community of inter-disciplinary and disciplinary scientists, analysts and practitioners who develop and use integrated assessment. The goals of the society are to nurture this community, to promote the development of IA and to encourage its wise application. An improved understanding is required for the policy processes into which an IA is embedded. Polycentric governance and social learning are key to characterizing complex multi scale, multi-actor processes and evolutionary change in society. However, the theoretical concepts behind them are as yet fragmented. To improve the state of knowledge, we require a critical analysis and synthesis of the diverse approaches and innovative inter-disciplinary research within the social sciences. The practice of IA has attracted a wide range of practitioners who are interested in applying their knowledge to a problem domain, for example, the fish biologist working on toxicological effects as part of a study on participatory risk assessment of new chemicals, or the psychologist examining the role of emotions in a study of environmental conflict management. At the same time, we might have system scientists developing new concepts for the participatory assessment and implementation of adaptive water management regimes, new modelling approaches or concepts for transition management. All of these people are also be rooted in their disciplinary and/or problem-oriented communities. In this respect, IA may be perceived as a kind of "meta discipline".