This project builds on the emerging capability to more dynamically predict climate change and the associated economic consequences, using the interdisciplinary modeling tool NorESM2-DIAM developed within NFR project # 281071. There is great potential to do groundbreaking research with this tool, but here we propose to also integrate this research with an innovative teaching approach, that fully embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the problem of global warming. Teaching related to this topic has so far typically been too narrow in scope, both at Norwegian Universities and beyond, with each course focusing on a single aspect of the issue. In the future, we envision a transition to a new and more holistic teaching paradigm, and would like to aid this transition by developing a course that offers a new way to teach students about the real-world trade-offs that decision-makers are faced with under global warming. Through course activities we also expect to generate novel student-involved publishable research in the interface between climate physics, economics and game theory. A complementary seminar-based course will also be developed, in which students learn how to become participants in the scientific and public discourse on the topic of climate change and the associated societal consequences.
IMAGINE is an interdisciplinary collaborative effort, including academic institutions in Norway and the US, as well as a Norwegian industry collaborator (Hubro Education). Hubro will explore the potential for developing the course described above into an online climate simulation game for the modern classroom. Through the proposed activities, IMAGINE will contribute to INTPARTs goal of enhancing quality in research and teaching, as well as strengthen the interlinkages between the two. IMAGINE will further enhance the collaboration of Norwegian institutions with one of the highest-ranked universities worldwide (Yale University).
The project builds on the capabilities we now have to more dynamically predict climate change and the associated economic consequences, using the interdisciplinary modeling tool NorESM2-DIAM developed within NFR project # 281071. There is great potential to do groundbreaking research with this tool, but here we integrate this research with an innovative teaching approach, that fully embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the problem of global warming. Teaching related to this topic has so far typically been too narrow in scope, both at Norwegian Universities and beyond, with each course focusing on a single aspect of the issue. In the future, we envision a transition to a new and more holistic teaching paradigm, and would like to aid this transition by developing a course that offers a new way to teach students about the real-world trade-offs that decision-makers are faced with under global warming. Through course activities we also expect to generate novel student-involved publishable research in the interface between climate physics, economics and game theory. A complementary seminar-based course will also be developed, in which students learn how to become participants in the scientific and public discourse on the topic of climate change and the associated societal consequences.
IMAGINE is an interdisciplinary collaborative effort, including academic institutions in Norway and the US, as well as a Norwegian industry collaborator (Hubro Education). Hubro will explore the potential for developing the former course described above into an online climate simulation game for the modern classroom. Through the proposed activities, IMAGINE will contribute to INTPARTs goal of enhancing quality in research and teaching, as well as strengthen the interlinkages between the two. IMAGINE will further enhance the collaboration of Norwegian institutions with one of the highest-ranked universities worldwide (Yale University).
Funding scheme:
INTPART-International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research