Fed Event: Oct 1st-Population and Climate Change: Coupling Regional Population/Economic models with Earth System models

Environmental Policy Roundtable: "Population and Climate Change: Coupling Regional Population/Economic models with Earth System models"

Friday, October 1st
Room 1113
Van Munching Hall
12:15 - 1:30pm



Eugenia Kalnay (speaker), Matthias Ruth, Rachel Franklin, Jorge Rivas, Fernando Miralles and Harald RybkaFriday, we will be joined by Eugenia Kalnay, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. She will discuss her recent paper, coauthored with Matthias Ruth, Rachel Franklin, Jorge Rivas, Fernando Miralles and Harald Rybka. We will review a few facts about population and climate change, the basic results and 30 year verifications of the 1972 Limits to Growth study, and propose that an Earth System used to study climate change should have two-way regional coupled population/economy model to allow feedbacks between population and climate change. We review the basic elements of a proposed coupled Earth System/Population, and some preliminary results of a simple population model developed by Harald Rybka during his 3 month internship at UMD. Discussion to follow.