DC4 — Integrated Assessment Models: methods and applications to understand and manage complexity
Project title | Integrated Assessment Models: methods and applications to understand and manage complexity (DC4) |
Supervisors | Simone D’Alessandro (UNIPI), Hervé Jeanmart (UCLouvain) |
Work package | WP4 — Macroeconomics, finance and the natural world for just socioeconomic transitions |
Objectives | The objective is to model the complex relations between the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of human activities, with a focus on the energy transition. This includes (i) the development of the bottom-up approach of renewable energy production (Dupont, Koppelaar, and Jeanmart 2018), as an input for an integrated assessment model (IAM), (ii) the analysis of the relation between energy production, climate change and inequality (by taking into account environmental, economic and social dimensions with feedback loops and multiple dynamic relations), (iii) the evaluation of synergies, trade-off and side-effects related to the implementation of policy packages. |
Expected results | Development of IAMs at different geographical scales (regional, national, sub-national) – together with the elaboration of large and coherent databases – to explore policy scenarios designed to identify fine-tuned policies, envision feasible pathways toward an equitable low-carbon transition and thus define fine-tuned policy recommendations. |
Planned mobility / secondment(s) | Duration of the PhD: 36 months (M6-M42) Main institution: UNIPI Visiting and secondment(s): UCLouvain (M18 to M24) and IIASA (M28 to M34) |
Degree awarding institution | Doctoral school associated with UNIPI. |