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Drivers of Global Transformations Research Projects

A selection of ongoing research projects in the Drivers of Global Transformations crosscutting area:

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 are using state-of-the art models to develop long-term strategies and scenarios to find economically feasible ways 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

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

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

An Artificial World for Forecasting (Dream Valley)

The Dream Valley Project will develop a cross-disciplinary modeling and assessment framework for simulating complex dynamical systems and testing methods for forecasting their future behaviors. More

Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Living Systems

This project will improve models for assessing the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of living systems to allow a better understanding of human-induced impacts on the biosphere More

Eco-evolutionary Vegetation Modeling and Management

The development of eco-evolutionary models will allow scientists to better understand how plants around the world respond to climate change and disturbances such as fires and grazing. More

Improving Earth Observation Methodology (EGIDA)

EGIDA is 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 assesses 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

Operating Energy Efficient Buildings (EnRiMa)

The project consortium is developing a Decision Support System to assist operators of complex buildings manage energy needs in a more efficient, less costly, and less CO2-intensive manner. 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)

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