Risk Analysis | Mathematics of Planet Earth

Four reasons why the fight against climate change is likely to fail

Democrats in the Senate stayed up all night talking about the perils of climate change. But while there's hope that technology, changing consumer and business practices or new policies could finally turn the tide and slow or reverse climate change, there are also good reasons to think those efforts will fail. [...]

How Inge Lehmann discovered the inner core of the Earth

Meeting

MPE Australia 2013: The Conference

Biodiversity, Data Visualization, Economics, Finance, General, Mathematics, Risk Analysis, Statistics, Sustainable Development

Rydges Hotel, Melbourne 8-12 July 2013 An Australian Academy of Science Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference This conference is the central scientific event of MPE Australia 2013, bringing together the scientific community to address the mathematical contribution to the challenges of … Continue reading →

Meeting

CliMathNet conference 2013

Atmosphere, Climate, Climate Change, Ecology, General, Geophysics, Meteorology, Natural Disasters, Ocean, Political Systems, Risk Analysis, Social Systems

CliMathNet Conference 2013 Continue reading →

MPE Summer School

IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program

Atmosphere, Climate, Climate Change, Ecology, Economics, Evolution, General, Natural Disasters, Political Systems, Risk Analysis, Social Systems, Sustainable Development, Transportation

IIASA’s annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with IIASA’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic and social change. From June through August accepted participants work within the … Continue reading →

Workshop

Sustainability and Complex Systems

Ecology, General, Ocean, Risk Analysis

Creating usable models for the sustainability of ecosystems has many mathematical challenges. Ecosystems are complex because they involve multiple interactions among organisms and between organisms and the physical environment, at multiple spatial and temporal scales, and with multiple feedback loops … Continue reading →