Anfang 23. Sep 2019 08:30
Ende 27. Sep 2019 13:30
Dauer 5 days
Ort Ispra, Italy
Tackling the Challenges of Climate Change by Integrating Social and Complex Systems Science - The workshop on extremes and energy transitions aims at exploring how the integration of complex system approaches with elements of social organisation and adaptation can enable important advancements in this area.
Human activities are causing a general trend of increased interdependence among social-ecological systems of our planet. This situation exposes them to ever more frequent and geographically distributed extreme events (power black-outs, droughts, extended floods, etc.) and poses fundamental energy sustainability challenges to any endeavour aiming to tackle climate change through renewable energies. To increase the current understanding of the phenomena involved and the scope for intervention, it is necessary to consider physical and social processes in combination.
Questions explored in the workshop:
Participants should be a practitioner, or a PhD student or a postdoc/advanced researcher working in the addressed areas either from a social or a physical/engineering perspective and come from the European Union.
DG JRC
Via E. Fermi 2749
21027 Ispra VA
Italy
