Topic: food security

Work with Jessica Zamborain-Mason to develop economic reference points for coral reef fisheries, connecting global analyses with Red Sea research. The project combines bioeconomic and econometric models, market monitoring and field data to examine trade-offs among fisheries, ecosystem health and food security. The current recruitment page accepts applications until filled.

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has recently shown great promise as an approach to networked system control. Arguably, one of the most difficult and important tasks for which large scale networked system control is applicable is common-pool resource (CPR) management. Crucial CPRs include arable land, fresh water, wetlands, wildlife, fish stock, forests and the atmosphere, of which proper management is related to some of society’s greatest challenges such as food security, inequality and climate change. This talk will consist of three parts. In the first, we will briefly look at clima