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international system and among large regions, such as those dened by
IPCC (Watson et al. 1997). Conditions on this scale provide an international
context and boundary conditions for inuences on vulnerability at national
and sub-national scales. The degree of coupling between these international
scenarios and locally-developed scenarios can vary from equivalency (very
tight coupling) to complementary (loose coupling), and can be developed in
processes that range from joint to independent (Zurek and Henrichs 2007).
3.2.1 Development of Storyline Elements
The scenario set in this chapter is designed around ...