Climate Risk Management: From Decision-Making to Basic Research and Back
Engineering research seminar with Klaus Keller, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
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Meeting ID: 992 4162 6740
Passcode: 311021
Climate change drives considerable risks. Designing strategies to manage these risks poses wicked problems that require mission-oriented basic research. One key challenge is that projections about the coupled natural-human systems are deeply uncertain. Furthermore, we may lack actionable early warning signs to inform adaptive decision-making. In addition, stakeholders and decision-makers often have conflicting objectives. This presentation discusses approaches to improve the design of risk management strategies using two example decisions. First, how to mitigate climate change by decarbonizing our energy systems? Second, how to adapt to climate change by managing flood risks? Using these examples, the presentation reviews approaches (i) to improve our quantitative understanding of the coupled natural-human systems dynamics and (ii) to use this information to improve the design of risk management strategies.