A home for conceptual inquiry.
The Conceptual Investigations Unit is a research consortium closely affiliated with Steve Davis's Sustainable Solutions Lab at Stanford University.
CIunit.org is the public-facing website for the Conceptual Investigations Unit.
The Conceptual Investigations Unit is focused on helping people to think more clearly about questions facing society regarding climate, economic development, and human welfare.
We aim to address important questions, performing quantitative analyses that lead to qualitative conclusions. We typically focus on problems that are global and multi-decadal in scale.
Why “conceptual investigations”?
Many of the most important choices facing humanity require decision-making under deep uncertainty and involve people with differing values, beliefs, and objectives. Making good choices will often depend on a shared conceptual understanding of the challenges we face, moreso than detailed quantitative numbers.
Address
Conceptual Investigations Unitc/o Sustainable Solutions Lab
Earth System Science Department
Stanford University
473 Via Ortega, Room 140
Stanford, CA 94305
United States
admin@CIunit.org