Friday Forum Presentation
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Open World Project
Friday Forum Oct. 19, 2012 </slide>
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- Other Projects of Interest
- Motivation and Vision
- Core Elements
- Case Study Projects
- Unified Model of Everything
- Next Steps
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<slide title="Other Projects of Interest">
- Carbon Transition Working Group
- Himalayan Melt and Flooding
- Peruvian Spatial Fisheries
- Web-Weaver
- Slider Extension
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<slide title="Introduction"> Many of the human behaviors that drive climate change and environmental degradation are deeply embedded in our society, economy, and government, and are mutually reinforcing. Better modeling of human-natural systems can help in many ways:
- Analyzing feedback loops can help identify leverage points, where small policy changes can have pervasive
impacts.
- Allowing models at diverse scales and contexts to
interact can help scientists integrate knowledge.
- Interactive models can facilitate communication
with policymakers and make complex problems intelligible.
The Open Model is a modeling framework aimed at these issues. </slide>
<slide title="Applicability">
- Systemically intractable due over-determined, reinforcing drives, and spatially heterogeneous.
- Environmental and public health issues
- environmental degradation, agricultural practices in poor countries, obesity, substance abuse, groundwater use, and fishery management
- rebound effects and cross-border shifts (e.g., carbon leakage)
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<slide title="Big Proposals">
- Fisheries Project
- Climate Behaviors
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