May
Designing Climate Research To Better Support Society
We invite all interested researcher to a mini-workshop to discuss and debate how to better integrate knowledge and methods across disciplines in climate change research. Our hope is to gather input from a diverse range of disciplines, from those working directly on climate change science and complex climate models, to those focused on the social sciences, economics, finance, policy, and philosophy.
The workshop is stimulated by a visit from Prof. David Stainforth of the London School of Economics. David has recently published a popular science book entitled: “Predicting Our Climate Future: What we know, what we don’t know and what he can’t know”. As an introduction to the workshop he will present some of the themes of his book.
During the workshop we will target three topics:
- To what extent is climate change research producing the information that is best suited to supporting society in responding to the threats that climate change represents? What types of information do businesses, politicians, policy makers and electorates need from climate change research? How could academic activities be better directed?
- How can ensembles of model simulations (earth system models, regional models, impact models, integrated assessment models, economic models etc) by designed to produce more robust conclusions? How do issues in philosophy and the mathematics of nonlinear dynamical systems influence how we should design and interpret ensembles of such models? What are the relevant epistemological questions?
- How can ensembles of model simulations be designed to provide information in support of business, investment and policy initiatives? What types of information should be their focus?
Registration: Send an email to Cerina Rydälv (cerina [dot] rydalv [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se) before 30 April. Limited number of participants.
The mini-workshop is an arrangement between
LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions focuses on ecosystem-based approaches to handle biodiversity loss and climate change, and how the intertwined crises can be linked to sustainable societal development. The profile Area spans 5 faculties within Lund University.
www.portal.research.lu/profile-area
MERGE brings together more than 150 researchers collaborating across five Swedish universities - Lund University, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, KTH, and Linnaeus University - and SMHI, to form a cutting edge research environment with a focus on the interactions between the climate and the terrestrial biosphere, and on the development and application of detailed process models, climate models and Earth System models.
About the event
Location:
room 133, IIIEE, Tegnérsplatsen 4, Lund
Contact:
cerina [dot] rydalv [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se