This section of the Resource Centre contains a selection of guidance documents and references on the development and applicaiton of socio-economic scenarios for assessing climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. Links to software packages and data sources for deriving socio-economic scenarios are also included.

1. IPCC general guidelines on the use of scenario data for climate imapct and adaptation assessment [IPCC TGICA, 2007]
2. Guidance document on Developing Socio-economic Scenarios for Use in Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments

3. Climate and socio-economic scenarios for global-scale climate change impacts assessments: characterising the SRES storylines [N. Arnell et al., 2004]

4. Downscaling drivers of global environmental change: Enabling use of global SRES scenarios at the national and grid levels [D. P. van Vuuren et al., 2007]