Projects
Re-engineering Cities for Good (CFG)
The project examines how a city’s infrastructure can be re-engineered to restore the natural ecosystem services that existed on the land before the city was built. More
Climate Change and Natural Disasters (CHANGES)
Global warming is expected to alter natural disaster patterns in Europe, and CHANGES researchers are modeling those anticipated changes to assist emergency preparedness officials and to train young scientists in the risk management skills needed to respond to future disasters. More
Development, Climate Change and Clumsiness
Policy disputes over the most effective way to use development aid to cope with climate change are best resolved with solutions that are clumsy, not elegant. More
Policy Instruments for Decarbonizing Energy (Climate Governance)
The Climate Governance project compares the potential of alternative policy instruments at national and regional scales to decarbonize the world's energy supply. More
Human-Environment Systems: Energy, Development and Security
A prerequisite for avoiding dangerous climate change is the complete decarbonization of the power systems of developed countries by mid-century, and developing countries must follow soon thereafter. This will almost certainly include heavy reliance on renewable energy sources, and could include complete reliance. More
Climate Change and Agricultural Productivity (ISAC)
High-frequency, high-resolution imaging from new satellites is providing detailed agricultural information that will allow scientists to better monitor the impacts of drought and climate change on crops and model future agricultural productivity under different climate change scenarios. More
Life Cycle Impacts of Goods, Services, Activities (LC-IMPACT)
The LC-IMPACT project is developing methods to assess the environmental life cycle impact of a vast number of goods, services and activities. The assessments examine the environmental costs of such things as erosion caused by land use and threats from toxic substances used in production processes. More
Linking Disasters for Risk Reduction (MATRIX)
Natural disasters are typically treated as individual incidents, but scientists are developing methods to link events such as earthquakes and landslides to enable policy makers to take more effective risk reduction measures. More
Creating Policy Tools for Climate Change Adaptation (MEDIATION)
MEDIATION uses case studies to provide European policymakers with scientific information and technical tools to develop improved climate change adaptation policies More
Poverty Traps
To escape from poverty traps that are caused by natural disasters, low-income households need assistance from public and private partnerships that are informed by risk analysis and based on local needs. More
Impact of Technological Change in Europe (PROSUITE)
PROSUITE is a collaboration to develop the tools needed to predict the impact technological changes will have on Europe’s environment, economies, and social institutions over the next several decades. More
Accelerating Cuts in Greenhouse Gases (RESPONSES)
RESPONSES is a project to develop strategies that will enable European Union countries to accelerate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and better adapt to environmental, social, and economic disruptions caused by climate change. More
Risk Adaptation in the Financial Arena
This exploratory project brings the anthropological theory of risk to bear on the financial arena and examines how “clumsy” solutions might lead to better responses to an ever-shifting risk environment. More
Improving Landslide Risk Responses (SafeLand)
SafeLand is a response to the growing risk of landslides in mountainous regions of Europe due to climate change-related increases in overall rainfall, concentrated rains over short periods, more extreme weather, and increased snowmelts in Alpine regions. More
Assessing Fisheries Sustainability in Burkina Faso (SusFish)
The SusFish project is developing a diverse set of methodological and technical resources to assess the integrity and long-term sustainability of water quality and fisheries in the African country of Burkina Faso. More