The solutions to climate change problems are contingent on how society and economy are organized and how they evolve. SC3 research center focuses on the driving forces, the agents of change: the behavior of households and businesses. We combine insights and methods from social sciences – economics, psychology, sociology, geography – with computational models of societies to explore effects of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies.
We focus on economy as part of a complex adaptive socio-environmental system where heterogeneous agents interact, learn and adapt in an evolutionary manner, giving rise to macrophenomena and emergent properties at societal level. Our team works on both climate change adaptation and mitigation .
The center is made of its people, an enthusiastic and growing team, with each person working on a different aspect of the social complexity of climate change