indicators and analyses used in the natural sciences is generally different from that
used in assessing technology development or the social sciences. WG I focuses on the former, WG III on the latter, and WG
II covers aspects
of both.
Three different approaches are used to describe uncertainties each with a distinct form of language. Choices among and within these three
approaches depend on both
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