Drivers of Global Transformations Research Projects
Age and Cohort Change (ACC)
The ACC project studies age, cohort and international variation in workers' productivity, and estimates and projects changes in religiosity by demographic characteristics in all countries in the world. More
Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Pathways (AMPERE)
AMPERE researchers used state-of-the art models to develop long-term, economically feasible strategies to lessen the global impact of climate change. More
Achieving Low Carbon Economies (Attainability)
By identifying which barriers to achieving deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can be removed by changing policies and economic incentives, the Attainability Project is pinpointing the best short- and long-term responses available to policymakers. More
Policy Instruments for Decarbonizing Energy (Climate Governance)
The Climate Governance project compared the potential of alternative national and regional policy instruments to decarbonize the world's energy supply. More
Artificial World for Forecasting (Dream Valley)
The Project develops a cross-disciplinary modeling and assessment framework. It consists of two parts: Dream Valley simulator and A3 framework. The Dream Valley simulator simulates complex dynamical systems, while the A3 framework implements and tests methods for forecasting their future behaviors. More
Improving Earth Observation Methodology (EGIDA)
EGIDA was a technical project to create a standard methodology to support GEOSS, the Global Earth Observations System of Systems, through development of evaluation processes, assessment indexes, and databases. More
Energy Use Impacts on the Environment (EnerGEO)
EnerGEO assessed the current and future impact of energy use on the environment by linking environmental observation systems with the processes involved in exploiting energy resources. More
Future Impacts of Climate Change (FutureSoc)
FutureSoc is an effort to define the consequences of climate change on future human societies and examine the ability of those societies to cope with the coming changes. More
Global
Economic Growth and Optimization
Using systems analysis tools to examine the drivers of economic growth, this project is developing economic scenarios to determine how best to achieve sustainable development. More
Management
of Heterogeneous Dynamical Systems
The project’s goal is to understand the heterogeneous interactions of the parts of large socioeconomic systems that function across many sectors and are driven by multiple agents. More
Climate Change and Agricultural Productivity (ISAC)
ISAC used a new generation of high-frequency, high-resolution imaging from new satellites to provide detailed agricultural information for improved scientific monitoring. More
Life Cycle Impacts of Goods, Services, Activities (LC-IMPACT)
The LC-IMPACT project developed methods to assess the environmental life cycle impact of a vast number of goods, services, and activities. Assessments examined the environmental costs of, for example, erosion caused by land use and toxic substances used in production processes. More
Envisioning Paradigm Shifts in Society (PASHMINA)
The PASHMINA project used complex modeling to create scenarios that envision changes in the use of energy, transportation, land, and the environment 20 to 40 years into the future. More
Impact of Technological Change in Europe (PROSUITE)
PROSUITE aimed to develop the tools needed to predict the impact of technological changes on Europe’s environment, economies, and social institutions over the next several decades. More
Seven Shocks and Finland
The project investigated the implications of seven different shocks on Finnish society, and created a portfolio of actions with the potential to increase resilience in responding to these shocks. More
Systemic Risk and Network Dynamics
The Systemic Risk and Network Dynamics project will examine how different types of systems, ranging from financial to ecological and beyond, are at risk of cascades of failures. As well as assessing this risk, this cross-cutting project will develop tools to help prevent such events. More
Drivers of Extreme Events
The goal of this project is to understand mechanisms leading to extreme events in complex dynamic, with special attention paid to the risk of cascading failure in networks. More