In this paper, we refer to the following definition of the word 'scenario' given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): 'A plausible and often simplified description of how the future may develop, based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about driving forces and key relationships' (p. 86) [59].
Scenario (generic) A plausible and often simplified description of how the future may develop, based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about key driving forces (e.g., rate of technology change, prices) and relationships.
Scenarios can be described as 'plausible but simplified descriptions of how the future may develop, according to a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about key driving forces and relationships' [ 69].
The biomass balance model (for reference see [54]) allows to calculate scenarios of the supply and demand of biomass in 2050, based on a consistent set of assumptions discussed in section 2.4.
Emissions scenario A plausible representation of the future development of emissions of substances that are potentially radiatively active (e.g., greenhouse gases, aerosols), based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about driving forces (such as demographic and socio-economic development, technological change) and their key relationships.
It demonstrates how the sometimes conflicting results can be synthesized into a consistent set of assumptions about the expected levels and the uncertainty of total fertility rate, life expectancy at birth of men and women, and net migration for 18 European countries.
Estimating the potential impact of climate change on human health calls for the development of risk assessment methods based on scenarios that provide a description of how the future may develop on the basis of plausible and internally consistent sets of assumptions (Ebi and Gamble 2005).
He had no consistent set of doctors, and almost no prospects for turning his situation around.
Given consistent individual judgment sets, unanimity rule guarantees consistent collective judgment sets, because the intersection of several consistent sets of propositions is always consistent.
