Integrated Assessment Models: methods and applications to understand and govern complexity
We invite you to join us for this upcoming IEEE Chapter Meeting of the IEEE Boston Sensors Council and IEEE Boston Solid-State Circuits Society Chapters. Explore how models are incorporating data with knowledge and advanced methodologies. Contribute your thoughts and ideas on the future change to address sustainable needs and goals.
In this program, Dr. Tiziano Distefano will present on his work for "Integrated Assessment Models: methods and applications to understand and govern complexity" followed by a facilitated discussion and Q&A.
Abstract: Climate change and increasing inequality have emerged as twin threats: we are not only failing to solve these problems but are in fact worsening them. Inertia and reluctance to change are in part due to the difficulty in understanding complex systems. One promising approach is given by the so-called Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) which merge diverse knowledge, data, and methodologies to address complex environmental problems and their connections with the economic system. IAMs provide a coherent quantitative framework to build up Policy scenario analysis designed to identify fine-tuned policies and envision feasible pathways toward an equitable low-carbon transition. Several applications for the Italian and France cases will be shown, together with possible future applications for the US with a focus on the relations between technological progress, labor, and social welfare.
Coffee, tea, and snacks will be available!
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- Date: 21 Sep 2022
- Time: 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- United States 02142
- Building: Cambridge Innovation Center
- Room Number: Santa Clara Conference Room - 5th Floor
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- Co-sponsored by IEEE Boston Sensors Council Chapter and IEEE Boston Solid-State Circuits Society Chapter
- Starts 20 September 2022 09:00 PM
- Ends 21 September 2022 06:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Dr. Tiziano Distefano of University of Florence (Italy)
Integrated Assessment Models: methods and applications to understand and govern complexity
Biography:
Tiziano Distefano is a Tenure-track Assistant Professor (Rtd-b) at the Department of Economics at the University of Florence (Italy) and he works in connection with the Responsible Management Research Center (REMARC). He is the Principal Investigator of the MIT-UNIPI MISTI Grant - IX call for the project ``Ecological Macroeconomics for an Equitable Resilient and Inclusive Transition in the U.S.'' (EMERITUS) in collaboration with the MIT (Prof. N.A. Ashford) and Virginia Tech (Prof. R. Hall). He also was the Vice-chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the XIV European Society for Ecological Economics Conference (ESEE2022 PISA) held in June 2022, at the University of Pisa - DEM.
He previously worked at the Dep. of Economics and Management at the University of Pisa and at Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI) at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He was a Visiting Research Scholar at the: Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellín, Colombia), Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (Cambridge, UK), and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). His main current research interests include Ecological Macroeconomics, International Trade, Water Resources, System Dynamics, Input-Output, Network Theory, and Epistemology.
Agenda
3:00PM ET Welcome and Coffee/Tea/Snacks Break
3:25PM ET Introduction and Opening Remarks - Bruce Hecht, VG2PLAY and Fellow, System Design and Management at MIT
3:30PM ET Presentation by Dr. Tiziano Distefano, University of Florence, Italy
4:15PM ET Closing Remarks