Preparing Future Designers for Climate Adaptation

Preparing for Climate Change

Preparing for the Future

The European Tripartite Group composed of ESA, the European Commission and EUROCONTROL is implementing, through the EGNOS project, the European contribution to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS-1). EGNOS, aimed at augmenting GPS and Glonass navigation, will provide and guarantee navigation signals for aeronautical, maritime and land mobile TransEuropean network applications. ESA is r...

Beyond Concepts - a Studio Pedagogy for Preparing Tomorrow’s Designers

In an increasingly complex world, university education should balance teaching students the skills and intricacies of their field while enabling them to discover their authenticity and place in the world. The questions are: “How can design education respond to this challenge?” and “Where in the curriculum?” This paper supports that the conceptual design phase can be the forum in which students ...

Preparing for catastrophic climate change

We study optimal adaptation to climate change when the harmful consequences of global warming are associated with stochastic occurrence of abrupt changes. The adaptation policy entails the accumulation of a particular sort of capital that will eliminate or reduce the catastrophic damage of an abrupt climate change when (and if) it occurs. The occurrence date is uncertain. The policy problem inv...

Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change in California: Oportunities and Constraints for Adaptation

DISCLAIMER This report was prepared as the result of work sponsored by the California Energy Commission (Energy Commission) and the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). It does not necessarily represent the views of the Energy Commission, Cal/EPA, their employees, or the State of California. The Energy Commission, Cal/EPA, the State of California, their employees, contractors, ...