Project Grant 2219255

This five-year, $721,211 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program will support research at Colorado State University to develop more robust representations of sociotechnical transitions related to housing, well-being, and energy. The multidisciplinary team will conduct interviews and surveys to understand diverse stakeholder perceptions of well-being and social paradigms of change. They will represent the influence of networks and institutions in models of sociotechnical change. Researchers will also simulate trajectories of well-being using a hybrid statistical-dynamic model integrating human priorities, the physical environment, and paradigms of change. Finally, they will develop a cascading-scale framework to represent sociotechnical transitions at the national, regional, community, and household levels, accounting for distributions of resource access and well-being outcomes. Findings will stimulate transdisciplinary inquiry across intellectual communities regarding frontiers in projecting societal impacts of decarbonization initiatives.