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Systems thinking for understanding and predicting regional and local climate change effects on human health & well being: workshop process
Citation:
FONTAINE, T. AND R. Boumans. Systems thinking for understanding and predicting regional and local climate change effects on human health & well being: workshop process. Presented at Integrated Modeling to Assess Climate Change Impacts on the Environment and Human Health Symposium, Atlanta, GA, February 01 - 02, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
EPA’s Systems Thinking Advisory Team (STAT) was engaged to guide a multi-disciplinary (health officials, modelers, climate change scientists, city planners, ecologists, and architects), multi-agency (EPA, CDC, State and Country officials) team in the use systems thinking, diagramming and modeling to examine possible effects of climate change on human health vulnerability in Travis County, Texas and San the Joaquin Valley, CA.
Description:
EPA’s Systems Thinking Advisory Team (STAT) was engaged to guide a multi-disciplinary (health officials, modelers, climate change scientists, city planners, ecologists, and architects), multi-agency (EPA, CDC, State and Country officials) team in the use systems thinking, diagramming and modeling to examine possible effects of climate change on human health vulnerability in Travis County, Texas and San the Joaquin Valley, CA. The process used in a two day workshop held December, 2010 will be described, including problem formulation steps, visualizing the products that will inform decisions, temporal and spatial considerations, down-scaling, data sources and gaps, conceptual and mathematical model development and other aspects of systems thinking.