Charting pathways to climate change mitigation in a coupled socio-climate model.

ABSTRACT: Geophysical models of climate change are becoming increasingly sophisticated, yet less effort is devoted to modelling the human systems causing climate change and how the two systems are coupled. Here, we develop a simple socio-climate model by coupling an Earth system model to a social dynamics model. We treat social processes endogenously-emerging from rules governing how individuals learn socially and how social norms develop-as well as being influenced by climate change and mitigation costs. Our goal is to gain qualitative insights into scenarios of potential socio-climate dynamics and to illustrate how such models can generate new research questions. We find that the social learning rate is strongly influential, to the point that variation of its value within empirically plausible ran

SUBMITTER: Bury TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6553685 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature