systems thinking and methods to bring together researchers working on human and planetary health Madhur Anand Director WICI Professor amp University Research Chair in Sustainability Science University of Guelph ID: 813188
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How do we leverage (complex) systems thinking and methods to bring together researchers working on human and planetary health?
Madhur
Anand
, Director, WICI
Professor & University Research Chair in Sustainability Science, University of Guelph
Slide21. Interrogate the vast array of tools and methodology offered by complex systems theory to try to find commonalities across systems2. Ensure ongoing dialogue between the social and natural sciences
Slide3WICI Mission Statement
a research hub that promotes the rigorous transdisciplinary study of innovation within — and the resilient and beneficial transformation of — the complex adaptive systems essential to human well-being
Slide4What Do We Do?
seminar series, workshops, conferences, seed funding for internal and external grants, reading groups, graduate student support, networking, WICI occasional papers, highlight research of members
Slide5Current Membership by Faculty
Slide6What is Complexity?
Anand
et al. (2010)
Slide7Self-organization
“
angle of repose
”
= critical point
Slide8Tipping Points/Alternative stable statesstable over small timescales and in response to small perturbationsc
hanges tend to occur in response to thresholds (not continuously)
Scheffer
et al. (2001)
Nature
Slide9Mathematical model of early warning signals of tipping points in a simplified human-environment systemShowed that human-environment feedback creates new effectsEarly warning signals can be “muted” or ambiguous
Self-organized criticality since HES are “doomed to criticality”
Slide10Sackler Colloquium: Coupled Human and Environmental SystemsNational Academy of Sciences, USA, 14-15 March 2016
Two-day meeting on human-environment challenges concerning human and environmental health Invited several
dozen scholars from around the world
Talks covered topics such as dams, whaling, climate treaties, infectious diseases of humans, and rabies control
Slide11May 2017, University of Waterloo
Slide12Field’s Institute, March 2018Workshop on Human-Environment Systems
Slide13How do we leverage (complex) systems thinking and methods to bring together researchers working on human and planetary health?
1. Interrogate the vast array of tools and methodology offered by complex systems theory to try to find commonalities across systems2. Ensure ongoing dialogue between the social and natural sciences