ERC SCALAR

/November 3, 2023/

Survey data on household climate change adaptation and resilience

Meta analysis of published flood surveys to reveal the role of culture in reported data on individual climate change adaptation taking floods as an example...
/October 11, 2023/

Alessandro Taberna joining the NAVIGATE project exchange program

In Spring 2023, I had the great opportunity to spend two months at the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) in Milan as part of the NAVIGATE project exchange program. My experience unfolded in the unique setting of BASE, a fascinating refurbished old factory that now serves as a dynamic hub blending art,...
/October 1, 2023/

Team presence at the Social Simulation Conference 2023

In the beginning of September, a selection of our team traveled to Glasgow, Scotland to attend the yearly Social Simulation Conference, organised by the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). The conference gathers researchers from the social simulation and agent-based modelling fields and is a great community for collaboration, exchange and networking. It was great to...
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/November 1, 2022/

Young Scientist Summer Program

In the summer of 2022, I had the opportunity to participate in the Young Summer Scientist Program (YSSP) held at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Founded in 1972 to promote East-West scientific cooperation during the Cold War, IIASA has been hosting the YSSP program since the early 80’s in its home: the...
/October 6, 2022/

Coping with increasing tides: Evolving agglomeration dynamics and technological change under exacerbating hazards

Cities are the engine of the world economy: they provide jobs, cultural and educational amenities, and serve as incubators of innovations. By 2050 up to 70% of the world's population is expected to live in cities, many of which, for a variety of historical reasons - such as access to natural amenities, resources, or strategic...
/September 30, 2022/

Integrating households climate change adaptation in a complex evolving economy: the role of different behavior assumptions – presenting at the Social Simulation Conference 2022

How do behavioral biases, heterogeneity, and social interactions affect the diffusion of adaptation actions against flooding among households? What are the distributional and indirect economic consequences of such bottom-up actions? These are some research questions I tackled during my presentation at the Social Simulation Conference 2022, Milan, where I had the opportunity to present some...
/June 10, 2022/

Research visit Grantham Institute – London School of Economics

In May of 2022, I crossed the English Channel for the first time to spend two weeks as a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics’ (LSE) Grantham Institute. Specifically, I went to visit two researchers working there: Dr. Sara Mehryar and Dr. Viktor Rozer. Sara’s research concerns flood risk governance and resilience decision-making...
/March 15, 2022/

One and done? Exploring linkages between households’ intended adaptations to climate-induced floods

Paper One and done? Exploring linkages between households’ intended adaptations to climate-induced floodsRisk Analysis, 2022Brayton Noll, Tatiana Filatova, Ariana Needhttps://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13897 Do households consider taking adaptation actions to floods one at a time or in groups? How do (any) adaptation actions that households have taken in the past, influence their present perceptions and intentions? In our...
/January 7, 2022/

Contextualizing cross-national patterns in household climate change adaptation

Our new paper in Nature Climate Change tries to understand to what degree do behavioral and social drivers of households’ adaptation to floods vary across countries ...
/July 14, 2021/

How cultures, country and type of measures influence adaptation behaviors

In this new work, building on the groundwork set forth in a recent meta analysis, we find marked differences in the factors driving household behavior, both based on the country of residence and the type of adaptation measures considered by the household...
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ERC SCALAR

Scaling up behavior and autonomous adaptation for macro models of climate change damage assessment
Damage associated with climate change is a core benchmark in science and policy. Macro Integrated Assessment Models estimating damages are criticized for neglecting risk distribution, adaptation dynamics and the possible collapse of regional economies. Micro-level social science studies contain substantial knowledge on individual behavior, decisions under risk and autonomous climate adaptation, and go beyond monetary losses by focusing on resilience. This knowledge can ameliorate theoretical and empirical flaws in current macro assessments, if adequate scaling up methods were to exist.

SCALAR aims to bridge the gap between micro and macro research traditions by modeling the behavioral aspects of autonomous adaptation processes of heterogeneous agents, and integrating them into macro level climate policy models.