Dr Delphi Ward works within CSIRO’s Valuing Sustainability Future Science Platform, where she works on developing tools and processes for navigating marine social-environmental tipping points – abrupt ‘surprise’ changes that can have cascading impacts for people and ecosystems. Her research combines collective knowledge generation, fun (but serious) gaming, and computing power to forecast tipping points and future scenarios for marine ecosystems, industries and communities along the east coast of lutruwita/Tasmania. Together these diverse insights can give decision-makers information about how the future might look under different scenarios so they can choose adaptation pathways that lead to a more sustainable future.
Research keyword: Avoiding Catastrophe
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