GLASSNET’s impact on key stakeholders will make a difference in achieving the SDGs. Our network has the potential to provide decision makers from a wide-array of areas with the data needed to properly assess actions that will affect the environment, the economy and local communities.
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Dr. Iman Haqiqi, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University
Iman conducts policy-relevant research on the interaction of social and environmental systems addressing major sustainability and resilience challenges regarding international agricultural trade, land use, water resources, and climate change. He studies food security and environmental sustainability employing cutting-edge methods in coupling natural-human systems. The strength of his research is a global-to-local-to-global approach that considers economic feedbacks and local conditions. Recently, he coupled a global Water Balance Model with a global land-use model and a partial equilibrium trade model to establish an advanced framework in which he explores the consequences of a pandemic like COVID-19 co-occurring with heat and water stress.
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The novel tool, SIMPLE-G, a Simplified International Model of agricultural Prices, Land use, and the Environment- Gridded version, is used for evaluating sustainability policies in a global context while factoring in local heterogeneity in land and water resources and natural ecosystem services. This multi-scale model can provide boundary conditions for local decision makers, as well as capturing feedback from local policies to national and global scales. Two applications of the model are used to illustrate its value in environmental analysis. The first model, quantifies the local stresses on land and water resources due to global changes in population, income, and productivity. The second model quantifies the global impacts of local policy responses and adaptations to war scarcity.
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AgMIP GlobalEcon Data Submission and Explorer Tools
The AgMIP Global Economics Team is an international network of researchers whose main objective is to undertake multi-model comparisons of critical issues affecting global agriculture—such as rising temperatures. The models vary greatly in their design, though all are able to produce a common set of indicators such as agricultural production, trade and prices. One challenge has been to pool the results using a standardized interface and to provide access to the ensemble of model results. Thus, new web-based tools have been developed, in collaboration with Purdue’s Research Computing. These tools have several useful features: a) a standardized interface for uploading model submissions with built-in diagnostic checking; b) ability to query the resulting database of merged results with download capability; and c) visualization of select results. The tools could potentially be used for similar multi-model exercises.
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The biannual meetings for GLASSNET take place in years 1, 3 and 5. The objective of this biannual meeting is to come to a consensus on GLASSNET’s prospective contributions over the course of this five-year project, and, more specifically, over the next two years (i.e., until the next biannual meeting, to be held in 2023). The first day of this meeting will focus on the themes growing out of our four summer workshops: (i) the science-policy interface, (ii) research challenges (in the context of specific use cases), (iii) data integration and interoperability, and (iv) cyberinfrastructure. In addition, we will be consider (v) how to evaluate the project’s impact on early career scholars and its success in promoting linkages across networks.
The cyberinfrastructure workshop took place on September 14, 2021. The goal of this workshop is to help flesh out the cyberinfrastructure section of our GLASSNET visioning paper being prepared in advance of our bi-annual meeting in October. This will build on the ideas and needs from the discussions of modeling and data integration working group during GLASSNET week and the subsequent workshops June-August. The key question to be discussed is what cyberinfrastructure is needed to enable data integration, exchange, and interoperability at the boundaries of the current GLASSNET networks, and develop human capital in and build the GLASSNET community.
The workshop took place on August 25, 2021. It involved a discussion of ways to improve science-policy linkages including suggestions for research priorities for the global change science community interested in providing relevant information for on-going policy dialogs, and the challenges and opportunities for improving science-policy linkages with the goal of generating more relevant science and better policy outcomes. The workshop began with each speaker making opening remarks (~5 minutes) on what they see as the biggest issues in this arena. The set of speakers we have invited span a wide range of interests and experiences. We then had a moderated discussion among the speakers that builds from the opening remarks, followed by Q/A and a discussion with the wider GLASSNET community