Willingness of Stakeholders to Use Models for Climate Policy: The Delft Process

Participatory integrated assessments (PIAs) can be defined as ‘an IA approach in which social stakeholders… contribute their knowledge and policy preferences to the assessment of complex policy problems’ (Schlumpf et al. 1999: p. 2). PIAs often involve dialogues between scientists, decision-makers and other stakeholders. Participatory research is increasingly used in integrated assessments (IAs) of climate change (Dahinden et al. 2000; Kloprogge and van der Sluijs 2006). PIAs differ with respect to their degree of involvement of stakeholders (Van de Kerkhof 2004). Here, we focus on PIAs with co-productive participation, where the IA is carried out in co-production between stakeholders and scientists (Van de Kerkhof 2004). In co-productive PIAs, participants decide what information to use and therefore also decide what models they are willing to use for producing the integrated insights in the PIA.