Climate and societal changes are unfolding in surprising and unexpected ways. How can interdisciplinary science better understand the risks of a changing climate on society? How can we fuse our understanding of complex global risks to improve anticipatory capacity? And what will society need to effectively navigate oncoming turbulence arising from complex systemic risks? This work develops new theoretical and conceptual tools for disentangling our rapidly accelerating global system.

How can we radically challenge our assumptions to imagine transformative scenarios of the future? Will the future become more (un)sustainable or (un)desirable? If so, for whom? This work employs imaginative futuring methods to develop scientifically-grounded, yet striking, visions of humanity's future. 

This work aims to understand how humans interact with the atmospheric water cycle. We consider how land-use change impacts modify evaporation, which can lead to changes in precipitation elsewhere - and importantly to the livelihoods of people dependent on that precipitation.