Make an Impact on Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Social Justice.
Join us on the project 共同创造理解的能力, 可视化, 和Mitigate Climate-Change Impact Cascades and Inequities in Central 墨西哥,” in partnership with the National Autonomous University of 墨西哥 (UNAM), 由国家科学基金会资助.
Earn your master’s degree from globally ranked and recognized 十大网赌平台. Join our interdisciplinary team of faculty and graduate students as a member of the second research cohort and collaborate with the first cohort for transformative team-based work.
项目背景及详情
In 2022, 共同创造理解的能力, 可视化, 和Mitigate Climate-Change Impact Cascades and Inequities in Central 墨西哥” was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program (award #2230723).
The project involves nine Clark faculty from the 部门 可持续发展与社会正义, 地理研究生院, 贝克尔设计学院 & 技术(BSDT). Our partners in 墨西哥 include faculty from the National Autonomous University of 墨西哥’s (UNAM) Laboratory for Sustainability Sciences (LANCIS), 大气科学研究所 & 气候变化(ICAyCC), Program for Climate Change Research (PINCC), as well as the 墨西哥 City government and local communities.
The project co-creates and integrates four components:
- A regional climate-change atlas using web-based GIS to map and spatially analyze climate, 水, 粮食和农业, 生态系统, 健康, 以及生活条件
- A system dynamics model (SDM) to represent interactions among these sectors, impact cascades (one sector’s impacts propagate through others), the unevenness of impacts across populations/landscapes, the simulation of alternative futures
- An eXtended Reality (XR) platform that allows stakeholders to inhabit those futures virtually to chart sustainable, 社会就, 适应气候变化的途径
- A research/practice-based suite of courses that Clark and UNAM students take together — including field research with local community partners
Interdisciplinary stakeholder co-creation is central to the work. Cohorts of Clark students spend months in the field, living and working with community partners and UNAM peers, which results in a transformative team-based experience.