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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.c3grid.de/

GK Visibility - Hybride Formen des Bildwissens, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1539

PROGRESS - Potsdam Research Cluster for Georisk Analysis, Environmental Change and Sustainability

Causal Networks - Interactions and complex structures in the dynamics of changing climate: impact of tipping elements in presence and past

DFG-Project in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prag. Investigation of past and present climate dynamics and impact of climate tipping elements by means of a spatio-temporal analysis of climate data using complex networks.

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/

LINC project - Learning about Interacting Networks in Climate (started Dec. 2011)

LINC-Project is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme.

The ITN LINC aims to provide excellent education and training for early stage and experienced researchers in the complete set of skills required to undertake a career in physics and geosciences with expertise in climatology, networks and complex systems.

The ITN LINC is a highly interrelated network of groups throughout Europe tackling the challenges in physics and geosciences with expertise in climatology, networks and complex systems. The consortium comprises the following partners: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany), Bar-Ilan University (Israel), Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay), Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain), Climate Risk Analysis (Germany), Ambrosys (Germany), Vortech (The Netherlands), L-UP Operational Consulting and Project Management (France).

PIK is leading Workpackage 1: Network Construction and Analysis.

This work package aims at applying and developing modern methods from nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics and mathematical statistics to make the complex networks approach applicable and useful for the study of the Earth’s climate.

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