Policy relevant global change science seeks to couple physical changes and human and natural system changes in an integrated view of the consequences, risks and costs of future alternative emission pathways, in order to better characterize the impacts of climate change and the benefits of mitigation. Models quantifying future impacts are just starting to reckon with the need of including the effects of extreme events, which cause more damages and are changing more rapidly than mean quantities in many cases.

In this session we seek contributions from studies that are quantifying the effects of extreme events on human and natural systems, either through econometric or process models. Our focus is on the quantification aspects, as we hope to make progress towards the inclusion of extreme events into economic and other integrated modeling systems, like IAMs,  thus facilitating more complete analyses of future scenarios in the context of societal development.