Grand Challenges

Question 1

Name the 5 grand challenges

Answer 1

Forecasting
Observing
Confining
Responding
Innovating

Question 2

Define forecasting

Answer 2

improve usefulness of forecasts of future conditions and consequences

Question 3

define observing

Answer 3

enhance observation systems needed to manage environmental change

Question 4

what do better observations lead to?

Answer 4

better forecasting

Question 5

define confining

Answer 5

determine how to anticipate, manage and avoid global disruptive climate change

Question 6

define responding

Answer 6

see what changes can be made for global sustainability

Question 7

define innovating

Answer 7

develop technological policy and social responses

Question 8

what did Elinor Ostrom call for?

Answer 8

innovative interdisciplinary research approaches

Question 9

What 5 things do the grand challenges have to be?

Answer 9

challenging, wide reaching, interdisciplinary, have defineable goals and be impactful

Question 10

Summarise J curve population crash model

Answer 10

Earths population will continue to increase and will reach carrying capacity. The population will then decline as it is dangerous because earth doesn’t hold the resources for such a big population

Question 11

Summarise Future Earth

Answer 11

10 year initiative to develop knowledge to respond to risks and opportunities

Question 12

5 key points of Reid et al (2010)

Answer 12

F: relevant models are needed as well as research for socioeconomic changes
O: data incompatible with forecasting
C: character of life altered due to human influence
R: addressing global change needs interdisciplinaries
I: strengthen incentives