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Methodology
IISCCIW's WHAT and HOW (Summary)
The IISCCIW initiative is composed, inter-relatedly and inter-disciplinarily (as appropriate), of 4
BASIC PILLARS and 4 BASIC COMPONENTS.
The 4 PILLARS outlined below, are WHAT the project intends to do, while the following 4 SCIENTIFIC COMPONENTS are the HOW through which the project's WHAT would be pursued:
a) Physical and Atmospheric Sciences
b) Environmental, Natural Resources, and Agricultural Sciences
c) Economic, Legal, and Management Sciences
d) Social, Theological, Behavioral, and Health Sciences.
IISCCIW's Four Pillars (Summary)
Through the wisdom of the 4 scientific components above (the initiative's "how to do"), the project will hopefully actualize its following 4 "what to do" pillars:
PILLAR I (Education/Informing):
Educating and informing the populations living in what is called "the Islamic world" on our globe (concentrated in Islamic countries or living as minorities elsewhere) about the nature, characteristics, dynamics, and consequences of global warming and climate change;
PILLAR II (Mitigation/Combating):
Developing or augmenting the needed intellectual, organizational, and physical infrastructures and the required policies and actions to enable these populations to participate effectively in mitigating/combating such human-caused processes, thus preventing the consequences of global warming and climate change from worsening even further;
PILLAR III (Adaptation/Coping):
Developing appropriate and effective adaptation and coping mechanisms and strategies for such populations, regions, and habitats, as they begin to actually face the increasingly horrible consequences of global warming and climate change;
PILLAR IV (Evaluation and conflict management):
Developing appropriate and objective evaluation, consultation, course-correction, and conflict management processes for the project itself, and for the processes/policies that it would try to actualize, toward hopefully helping to heal our imperiled planet, engaging the participation of its Islamic world inhabitants.
NOTE: A more detailed description of these pillars, including some initial examples, are found in the next section of this website.
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