{"id":76,"date":"2023-11-07T17:09:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csdc.dev.rtd.asu.edu\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:26:57","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/csdc\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"unityblocks-hero\" class=\"wp-block-unityblocks-hero hide-content\" data-herotype=\"heading-hero\" data-image=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/csdc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/12\/global-network-1200x512-1.jpeg&quot;,&quot;altText&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cssClass&quot;:[],&quot;size&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;}\" data-subtitle=\"{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;highlightColor&quot;:&quot;white&quot;,&quot;maxWidth&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cssClass&quot;:[]}\" data-title=\"{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Research areas&quot;,&quot;highlightColor&quot;:&quot;gold&quot;,&quot;maxWidth&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cssClass&quot;:[]}\" data-contents=\"[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;maxWidth&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cssClass&quot;:[],&quot;highlightColor&quot;:&quot;white&quot;}]\" data-contentscolor=\"white\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-container container mb-0 pt-6 pt-xl-12\">\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row justify-content-between\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-8 order-2 order-md-1\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading mt-0\">CSDC research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since its founding, CSDC faculty have submitted over $75 million in proposals and have received over $12 million in externally funded grants. CSDC faculty have also led two NSF Science and Technology Center proposals totaling an additional $100 million in requested funds. The center has been the home to the international Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences for over a decade, an international network supporting social and cyberinfrastructure for reproducibility and transparency in scientific computation for social and ecological dynamics. It also hosts the leadership of the Open Modeling Foundation, an international consortium of modeling science organizations developing common standards for best practices across the social and natural sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A suite of closely related themes has emerged out of the research activities of the center\u2019s faculty, visitors, and postdocs.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<ul class=\"uds-list wp-block-list\">\n<li>Innovation and evolution in life, society and technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cooperation, conflict and collective action<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Socioecological<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<ul class=\"uds-list wp-block-list\">\n<li>Social scaling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computation and modeling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evolution of social complexity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-3 order-1 order-md-2 mb-6 mb-md-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<section class=\"uds-section bg topo-black \" ><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-container container mb-0\">\n\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading mb-6\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">To encourage continuing innovative, transdisciplinary science across these research themes, the CSDC, Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment and the ASU\/SFI Biocomplexity Center have cooperated to provide seed money for faculty-generated working groups to initiate new scholarship.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row justify-content-between\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4 mb-2\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<!-- If it's an interactive card, use the interactive card format -->\n\t<!-- open standard card -->\n\t<div class=\"card   \">\n\n\t<!-- get header content based on header style -->\n\n\t<!-- image style header -->\n\t\n\t<!-- icon style header -->\n\t\t\t<!-- render icon with color span if needed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gold\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<span class=\"fas fa-lightbulb fa-2x fa-2x card-icon-top\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t<!-- if horizontal, open content wrapper -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card header -->\n\t<div class=\"card-header\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"card-title\">Innovation and evolution in life, society and technology<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<!-- card body -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"card-text\">How do novel and innovative features emerge or evolve within groups? What processes drive innovation? How do biological, social and technological systems coevolve in humans and other organisms?<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<!-- event details for event style cards -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card buttons, links, and tags -->\n\t<!-- card buttons -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card links -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card tags -->\n\t\n\t<!-- close content wrapper if horizontal -->\n\t\n\t<\/div> <!-- close standard card -->\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4 mb-2\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<!-- If it's an interactive card, use the interactive card format -->\n\t<!-- open standard card -->\n\t<div class=\"card   \">\n\n\t<!-- get header content based on header style -->\n\n\t<!-- image style header -->\n\t\n\t<!-- icon style header -->\n\t\t\t<!-- render icon with color span if needed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gold\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<span class=\"fas fa-handshake fa-2x fa-2x card-icon-top\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t<!-- if horizontal, open content wrapper -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card header -->\n\t<div class=\"card-header\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"card-title\">Cooperation, conflict and collective action<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<!-- card body -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"card-text\">How do cooperative interactions individuals within groups create higher-level entities\u2014including new individuals? What is the role of conflict between individuals and groups in maintaining or limiting cooperation? How does collective action among cooperating individuals enable groups to engage in new kinds of actions and generate new levels of cooperation?<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<!-- event details for event style cards -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card buttons, links, and tags -->\n\t<!-- card buttons -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card links -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card tags -->\n\t\n\t<!-- close content wrapper if horizontal -->\n\t\n\t<\/div> <!-- close standard card -->\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4 mb-2\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<!-- If it's an interactive card, use the interactive card format -->\n\t<!-- open standard card -->\n\t<div class=\"card   \">\n\n\t<!-- get header content based on header style -->\n\n\t<!-- image style header -->\n\t\n\t<!-- icon style header -->\n\t\t\t<!-- render icon with color span if needed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gold\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<span class=\"fas fa-retweet fa-2x fa-2x card-icon-top\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t<!-- if horizontal, open content wrapper -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card header -->\n\t<div class=\"card-header\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"card-title\">Socioecological<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<!-- card body -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"card-text\">How do societies interact with and influence their social and physical environments? How do multi-level feedbacks between coupled social and biophysical systems transform both systems over different time scales? How can we manage these complex interactions to sustain an Anthropocene world?<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<!-- event details for event style cards -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card buttons, links, and tags -->\n\t<!-- card buttons -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card links -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card tags -->\n\t\n\t<!-- close content wrapper if horizontal -->\n\t\n\t<\/div> <!-- close standard card -->\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4 mb-2\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<!-- If it's an interactive card, use the interactive card format -->\n\t<!-- open standard card -->\n\t<div class=\"card   \">\n\n\t<!-- get header content based on header style -->\n\n\t<!-- image style header -->\n\t\n\t<!-- icon style header -->\n\t\t\t<!-- render icon with color span if needed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gold\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<span class=\"fas fa-seedling fa-2x fa-2x card-icon-top\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t<!-- if horizontal, open content wrapper -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card header -->\n\t<div class=\"card-header\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"card-title\">Social scaling<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<!-- card body -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"card-text\">How do social groups change in their dynamics and structure as they grow, develop and evolve? Are there scaling laws that apply across human and non-human systems? Can studies of scaling in non-human societies (like social insects) provide new insights into the evolution and growth of urban systems?<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<!-- event details for event style cards -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card buttons, links, and tags -->\n\t<!-- card buttons -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card links -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card tags -->\n\t\n\t<!-- close content wrapper if horizontal -->\n\t\n\t<\/div> <!-- close standard card -->\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4 mb-2\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<!-- If it's an interactive card, use the interactive card format -->\n\t<!-- open standard card -->\n\t<div class=\"card   \">\n\n\t<!-- get header content based on header style -->\n\n\t<!-- image style header -->\n\t\n\t<!-- icon style header -->\n\t\t\t<!-- render icon with color span if needed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gold\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<span class=\"fas fa-cogs fa-2x fa-2x card-icon-top\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t<!-- if horizontal, open content wrapper -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card header -->\n\t<div class=\"card-header\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"card-title\">Computation and modeling<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<!-- card body -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"card-text\">How can we develop next generation computational modeling that is sufficiently flexible and scalable to represent feedbacks between social and environmental systems in an integrative way at local to global scales? How can new, large scale datasets be applied to computational representations of complex systems? How can computational science be made more open and reproducible?<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<!-- event details for event style cards -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card buttons, links, and tags -->\n\t<!-- card buttons -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card links -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card tags -->\n\t\n\t<!-- close content wrapper if horizontal -->\n\t\n\t<\/div> <!-- close standard card -->\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4 mb-2\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<!-- If it's an interactive card, use the interactive card format -->\n\t<!-- open standard card -->\n\t<div class=\"card   \">\n\n\t<!-- get header content based on header style -->\n\n\t<!-- image style header -->\n\t\n\t<!-- icon style header -->\n\t\t\t<!-- render icon with color span if needed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gold\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<span class=\"fas fa-project-diagram fa-2x fa-2x card-icon-top\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t<!-- if horizontal, open content wrapper -->\n\t\n\t<!-- card header -->\n\t<div class=\"card-header\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"card-title\">Evolution of social complexity<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<!-- card body -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"card-text\">What are the evolutionary bases for human cooperation and its unique characteristics? 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