A Pragmatist Orientation for the Social Sciences in Climate Policy

1. Introduction
Martin Kowarsch

Part I. The Key Challenge of Integrated Economic Advice for Climate Policy

2. The Need for an Integrated Economic Assessment of Climate Policy Options
Martin Kowarsch

3. Fundamental Perils for Scientific Assessments
Martin Kowarsch

Part II. A Philosophical Evaluation of Normative Science-Policy Models

4. Prevalent Action-Guiding Models of Scientific Expertise in Policy
Martin Kowarsch

5. Fact/Value Conflation and the Danger of the Traditional Models
Martin Kowarsch

6. Pragmatism: Objectivity Despite Fact/Value Entanglement
Martin Kowarsch

Part III. A Critical Look at the IPCC’s Economics

7. Understanding and Evaluating the IAM-Based Economics
Martin Kowarsch

8. Ethics in Climate Economics: Balance or Bias?
Martin Kowarsch

9. Trust Them? The Epistemic Quality of Climate Economics
Martin Kowarsch

10. An Evaluation of the IPCC WG III Assessments
Martin Kowarsch

Part IV. Towards Improved Integrated Economic Assessments for Climate Policy

11. Elements of a Guideline for Future Integrated Economic Assessments of the IPCC
Martin Kowarsch

12. Potential Implications of the IPCC Reform: Deliberative Learning and Difficulties of In-Depth Policy Assessment
Martin Kowarsch

Keywords: Environment, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Political Philosophy, Economic Policy, Pragmatism