Reducing risk, empowering resilience to disruptive global change

MIT News  January 23, 2020
The MIT Joint Program on the Science of Global Change launched in 2019 its Adaptation-at-Scale initiative (AS-MIT) seeks evidence-based solutions to global change-driven risks. Using its Integrated Global System Modeling (IGSM) framework, as well as a suite of resource and infrastructure assessment models, AS-MIT targets, diagnoses, and projects changing risks to life-sustaining resources under impending societal and environmental stressors, and evaluates the effectiveness of potential risk-reduction measures. At an MIT Joint Program workshop aimed at providing decision-makers with actionable information on key global change concerns, the conference covered risks and resilience strategies for food, energy, and water systems; urban-scale solutions; predicting the evolving risk of extreme events; and decision-making and early warning capabilities, and featured a lunch seminar on renewable energy for resilience and adaptation by an expert from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory…read more.

An Army Corps of Engineers flood model depicting the Ala Wai watershed after a 100-year rain event. Image: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Honolulu District

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