New SCIARA initiative: participatory "climate time travels" using World-Earth models
Anyone concerned about our future climate will soon be able to contribute to understanding the social dynamics of climate change by taking part in a “citizen science” experiment. In a donation-funded online simulation currently being developed by the non-profit company SCIARA in cooperation with the COPAN collaboration at PIK, users can playfully explore virtual climate futures, make decisions, and see the consequences. Based on the players' behavior, decision-makers in politics, business and society will ultimately be able to check climate protection measures for their social acceptance and effectiveness before they are implemented - in order to make effective decisions in the long term.
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Young researcher's workshop on Interacting Tipping Elements in the Natural and Social Components of the Earth System
Registration is now open until 12 June 2020 for InTENSE, the 728. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Interacting Tipping Elements in the Natural and Social Components of the Earth System, taking place on 16–19 August 2020 in Bad Honnef.
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Paper: AI for analysing World-Earth models
Deep Reinforcement Learning cannot only play Atari Games and Go but point to sustainable management pathways as well.
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Jonathan Donges awarded with most important prize for young German researchers
Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2019 for statistical physics and climate science awared to Jonathan Donges
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pyunicorn 0.6.0 released
A significant update of the pyunicorn package for analysis of complex networks and nonlinear time series analysis has been released.
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Awards for COPAN Master students in 2018
Congratulations! A Master thesis with COPAN does pay off.
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Paper: When optimization for governing human-environment tipping elements is neither sustainable nor safe
A new copan paper in Nature Communications explores interrelations and trade-offs between the policy paradigms of economic optimization, sustainability and the safe operating space for humanity.
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copan:CORE open source release
The copan:CORE World-Earth modelling framework has been released as open source software.
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Paper: climate coalition formation
A new copan paper in Nature Climate Change gives hope that global climate cooperation might arise bottom-up
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Review paper: Towards representing human behavior and decision making in Earth system models
Towards representing human behavior and decision making in Earth system models – an overview of techniques and approaches
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