MIT News October 4, 2021
Researchers at MIT are developing multi-sector dynamics (MSD) to home in on compounding risks and potential tipping points across interconnected natural and human systems and explore interactions and interdependencies among human and natural systems, and how these systems may adapt, interact, and co-evolve in response to short-term shocks and long-term influences and stresses. Tipping points occur when these systems can no longer sustain multiple, co-evolving stresses. The modeling tools were used in selected regions of the United States. MIT Socio-Environmental Triage (MST) platform, a screening-level visualization tool allows users to examine risks, identify hot spots. The first version of the platform analyzes present-day risks related to water, land, climate, the economy, energy, demographics, health, and infrastructure, and where these compound to create risk hot spots. Successive versions of the platform will incorporate projections based on the MIT Joint Program’s Integrated Global System Modeling (IGSM) framework. This enhanced capability could help uncover cost-effective pathways for mitigating and adapting to a wide range of environmental and economic risks…read more.Â
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