Envisioning ARPA‐C: A Transdisciplinary Institution for Radical Climate Research and Intervention
Abstract President Joe Biden's administration is poised to make a significant investment in climate research, including the creation of ARPA‐C (Advanced Research Projects Agency–Climate). This commentary serves to promote discourse on ARPA‐C and the future of government‐led climate research. He...
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| author | Lynn Badia Josette M. Plaut Joseph C. von Fischer John Volckens Jeff Muhs |
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| description | Abstract President Joe Biden's administration is poised to make a significant investment in climate research, including the creation of ARPA‐C (Advanced Research Projects Agency–Climate). This commentary serves to promote discourse on ARPA‐C and the future of government‐led climate research. Here, we propose a revolutionary leap to the ARPA model that incorporates a focus on culture and equity in a unique institutional structure anchored by transdisciplinarity. With ARPA‐C, we argue for a radical rethinking of climate interventions that reconciles and evolves the relationship between social, technical, and environmental systems, by finding integrated pathways to improvement via a high‐risk, creative, and transformative climate action agenda. Without research that can address the network of causal relationships across multiple scales, systems, and nations, programmatic models for climate research and implementation are unlikely to succeed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d38a9189fde24cf7a279e22dfc61f7642022-12-22T02:06:15ZengWileyEarth's Future2328-42772021-06-0196n/an/a10.1029/2021EF002115Envisioning ARPA‐C: A Transdisciplinary Institution for Radical Climate Research and InterventionLynn Badia0Josette M. Plaut1Joseph C. von Fischer2John Volckens3Jeff Muhs4Department of English Colorado State University Fort Collins CO USAInstitute for the Built Environment Colorado State University Fort Collins CO USADepartment of Biology Colorado State University Fort Collins CO USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins CO USACSU Energy Institute Colorado State University Fort Collins CO USAAbstract President Joe Biden's administration is poised to make a significant investment in climate research, including the creation of ARPA‐C (Advanced Research Projects Agency–Climate). This commentary serves to promote discourse on ARPA‐C and the future of government‐led climate research. Here, we propose a revolutionary leap to the ARPA model that incorporates a focus on culture and equity in a unique institutional structure anchored by transdisciplinarity. With ARPA‐C, we argue for a radical rethinking of climate interventions that reconciles and evolves the relationship between social, technical, and environmental systems, by finding integrated pathways to improvement via a high‐risk, creative, and transformative climate action agenda. Without research that can address the network of causal relationships across multiple scales, systems, and nations, programmatic models for climate research and implementation are unlikely to succeed.https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002115 |
| spellingShingle | Lynn Badia Josette M. Plaut Joseph C. von Fischer John Volckens Jeff Muhs Envisioning ARPA‐C: A Transdisciplinary Institution for Radical Climate Research and Intervention Earth's Future |
| title | Envisioning ARPA‐C: A Transdisciplinary Institution for Radical Climate Research and Intervention |
| title_full | Envisioning ARPA‐C: A Transdisciplinary Institution for Radical Climate Research and Intervention |
| title_fullStr | Envisioning ARPA‐C: A Transdisciplinary Institution for Radical Climate Research and Intervention |
| title_full_unstemmed | Envisioning ARPA‐C: A Transdisciplinary Institution for Radical Climate Research and Intervention |
| title_short | Envisioning ARPA‐C: A Transdisciplinary Institution for Radical Climate Research and Intervention |
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