Principal Investigator: Karen Fisher-Vanden
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Project description: Energy, water, and land systems interact in complex and, as yet, poorly-understood ways -- all with enormous implications for international trade, food security, reliability of electric power supply, demographic patterns, and the resilience of communities and critical infrastructure to natural hazards. With support from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Program on Coupled Human and Earth Systems (PCHES) seeks to create a new, state-of-the-art, integrated modeling framework to drive advances in the quantitative understanding of these coupled systems. PCHES brings together a transdisciplinary team of scholars under DOE's new Multisector Dynamics initiative to address these challenges.
