缓解 & Adaptation RESEARCH Institute
毛伊岛
Climate change and sea level rise are increasingly on the agenda of the public, 媒体, and decision makers in the public, private and social sectors of society. Focus is almost solely on the related hazards and the potential disasters we might be facing. 然而, other changes such as the rapid increase of species extinction rates and the fundamental changes in the physiology of the Earth's life-support system pose equally important catastrophic threats to the sustainability of the global human society and even the sustainability of the planetary life-support system. 的 缓解 and Adaptation RESEARCH Institute's (毛伊岛) is therefore taking a comprehensive view on the syndrome of modern global change and is focusing on the options we have to mitigate the impacts of modern global change, 适应变化, and to prepare for possible futures.
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毛伊岛's mission is to convene societal agents and faculty to inform and facilitate transformations towards sustainability and to further our understanding of the challenges posed by recent rapid changes, 包括土地用途的改变, biodiversity loss and extinction, climate change and sea level rise, and the impacts of modern global change on the Earth's life support system.
A future with a prepared, antifragile and adaptive society copying with modern global change.
支持ing the transition to a prepared, 有弹性的, and adaptive society coping with changing climates and rising sea levels.
毛伊岛案例RESEARCH模板
毛伊岛 has developed a template for case studies of wicked problems associated with aspects of the syndrome of modern global change and sustainability. This template takes a transdisciplinary approach to the system representing the wicked problem. Utilizing participatory modeling it aims for a common understanding of desirable futures and the development of a conceptual model that captures all aspects of the system's inherent vulnerabilities and the hazards and threats the system is exposed to. Using the conceptual model to develop different levels of stock-and-flow and agent-based models, the template utilizes simulation to explore the spectrum of possible futures of the system and to develop foresight. Analizing the decision space and social agents in this space, a set of viable options can be developed for interventions that would divert the system's trajectory towards desirable futures. This 毛伊岛 template has been used in more than seventy case studies caried out in undergraduate and graduate research projects.
可持续发展目标
In 2015, the United Nations agreed on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims towards seventeen 可持续发展目标 (西班牙). In most countries and internationally, 政府的利益相关者, non-governmental and business levels are actively participating in implementing the 2030 Agenda. 毛伊岛 is engaged in activities that supports and facilitates such transdisciplinary efforts, with a focus on participatory modeling efforts. 毛伊岛 also aims to increase the number of ODU faculty supporting the implementation of the 2030 Agenda with collaborative research and there are opportunities for students to engage in activities. Interested faculty and students should contact Hans-Peter Plag via email at hpplag@753949.com.
保护领导
Certificate in 保护领导
This interdisciplinary graduate certificate will facilitate the development of the next generation of professionals who can address the challenges for conservation posed by a changing climate and sea level rise.
Minor in 保护领导
的 interdisciplinary minor in 保护领导 is offered by bet8体育娱乐入口 in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 服务 (USFWS) as part of a long-term, sustainable program of conservation-related service-learning, internships and leadership programs.