Projekte
GSDP - Global Systems Dynamics and Policy (started Oct. 2010)
Global Systems Dynamics and Policy (GSDP) is an FP7 funded coordination action to develop a research programme for the study of global systems in an on-going dialogue with decision makers. The project started in October 2010 and will continue until October 2013.
GSDP operates as an open network, which evolves through workshops, working papers, publications, and open conferences. It will consolidate an international community of researchers engaged in dialogues with decision-makers, and will generate a variety of research and consultancy projects in Europe and elsewhere.
PIK is leading Workpackage 5: Emergent Behaviour of multi-scale Networks of Networks. This work package aims at challenging the mental images rooted in existing concepts of the global research program that addresses the patterns of behaviour emerging in global networks of networks. The challenge of globalisation resides to a large extent in the fact that the society of nations is confronted with problems that transcend national boundaries. The global economy as well as global society-environment interactions form highly heterogeneous multi-scale networks that cannot be governed with concepts stemming from the simpler structures formed by hierarchies of nested networks. This work package will challenge the mental images rooted in such concepts and outline the components of the global systems research program that addresses the patterns of behaviour emerging in global networks of networks.
This work package is methodologically oriented and brings the expertise from statistical physics, mathematics and computer science to GSDP. To develop concepts and tools for modelling the emergent dynamics of global socio-environmental systems (GSECs) on various scales in time and space under changing external conditions and to transform these outcomes to the science-policy interface. The overall aim is to identify the elements for a Research Program about DSLs for emergent behaviour in multi-scale networks of networks.
Read more: http://www.gsdp.eu
ECONS - Evolving Complex Networks – Regionales Ressourcen-Management unter Umwelt- und demografischem Wandel
SUMO - Supermodeling by combining imperfect models (started Oct. 2010)
The project studies the use of climate science, non-linear dynamics and machine learning to construct supermodels by a new combination of existing imperfect climate models and observational data.
Read more: http://www.knmi.nl/samenw/sumo/
PHOCUS - Towards a PHOtonic liquid state machine based on delay-CoUpled Systems (started Jan. 2010)
The aim of the project is to design and implement a photonics realization of liquid state machine (LSM), with the potential for versatile and fast signal handling. We will mainly use dynamical systems with time delay.
Read more: http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/phocus/
HIMPAC - Himalaya: Modern and Past Climates (started Oct. 2010)
The project constitutes an interdisciplinary, multiproxy and mulitarchive approach to unravel the characteristics of modern- and palaeo-monsoons during the Holocene on societally relevant time scales (seasonal and decadal), with special emphasis on extreme hydro-meteorological events (floods and droughts).
C3GRID - Collaborative Climate Community Data and Processing Grid
Read more: http://www.c3grid.de/
CIRCE -Climate Change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Environment
The CIRCE Integrated Project, funded under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, aimed to consider climate change in the Mediterranean region, that includes Europe, North Africa and Middle East, in a complex and multifaceted way.
With the help of new scientific methods, it focused on social dynamics, economic issues, effects on human health, impacts on agriculture and forest and many other criteria, highlighting impacts and possible adaptation actions.
The Final Conference of CIRCE, held in Rome on 23-25 May 2011, closed with an encouraging take home message: scientific knowledge (from climatology to meterology, from economics to ecology) provides elements more and more relevant to estimate ongoing climate change effects and to implement adaptation and mitigation policies.
Our work was located in a research line on the Relevant Societal Dynamics, including the study of patterns of economic growth, development policies, unemployment disparities, as well as risk management practices and training.
Read more: http://www.circeproject.eu/
