Despite the recent popularity of multi-scale scenario exercises, a review of the literature reveals missing elements regarding local-scale scenario-building.
This paper summarizes the available paleoenvironmental information for the Mid-Holocene in Northwestern Argentina, in order to systematize a multi-scale scenario for human adaptation in the area.
We defined six consistent, multi-scale scenarios covering the global, the Swiss and the regional levels (i.e., the combination of the "context scenarios" presented here with local scenarios developed by the stakeholders).
In our local scenario workshops, for example, stakeholders did not consider two out of the six multi-scale scenarios at the outset of the transdisciplinary process since the critical combination of climatic and economic risks in the region were implicitly avoided in the stakeholder discussions (Brand et al. 2013).
For operational scenario, multi-scale modeling approach could be recommended as the best choice.
This rapidly changing scenario together with availability of high precision and large-scale experimental data has enabled development of high fidelity simulation tools capable of simulating multi-physics multi-scale phenomena.
This simulation scenario highlights the multi-scale temporal characteristics of the FIRM simulator.
It is a multi-stakeholder, multi-variable, multi-scale problem.
Such a multi-scale model should be considered as a null scenario in testing more complex effects related to habitat fragmentation, such as genetic bottlenecks, or loss of keystone species.
These characteristics include multi-scale, multi-directional, and multi-precision.
Therefore, these classifications will all have utility for studies of multi-scale environmental correlates of forest communities, including under global change scenarios.
