IM3: Integrated Multisector, Multiscale Modeling
This innovative modeling project explores how human and natural systems and landscapes in the United States co-evolve over the 21st century in response to compounding short- and long-term influences. We are currently studying the interactions of energy, water, land, and urban systems in response to these influences: climate, including severe heat waves and drought; population change and
urbanization;
socioeconomic
factors; energy transitions; and technology change.
| Keywords | human-natural system interactions, adaptation, climate impacts, drought, energy transitions, modeling, multiscale, multisector dynamics, urbanization |
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| TYPE | Scientific Focus Area |
Principal Investigator (PI)
Jennie Rice
Lead Institution
Other Collaborators
Baylor University
Boston University
Cornell University
North Carolina State University
Pennsylvania State University
University of California Davis
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The IM3 project performs innovative modeling to explore how human and natural systems and landscapes in the United States co-evolve in response to short-term shocks and long-term influences. (Image credit: PNNL https://www.pnnl.gov/projects/integrated-multisector-multiscale-modeling-im3)