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SUMMARY:Tackling Climate Change: A System of Systems Engineering Perspecti
 ve
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DESCRIPTION:Keith W. Hipel is University Professor of Systems Design Engin
 eering and Coordinator of the Conflict Analysis Group at the University of
  Waterloo. He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance 
 Innovation\, President-Elect of the Academy of Science (Royal Society of C
 anada)\, and Past-Chair of the Board of Governors at Renison University Co
 llege. His major research interests are the development and application of
  conflict resolution\, multiple objective decision making and time series 
 analysis techniques from a system of systems engineering perspective. Keit
 h is the recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS
 ) Eminent Scientist Award\, Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award from t
 he IEEE Systems\, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society\, IEEE SMC Norbert Wie
 ner Award\, Docteur Honoris Causa (France)\, and Sir John William Dawson M
 edal (Royal Society of Canada).\nAbstract:\nAn integrative and adaptive ap
 proach to Responsible Governance is put forward for addressing climate cha
 nge based on a System of Systems (SoS) Engineering framework that reflects
  the values of stakeholders using a participatory approach and achieves de
 sirable systems goals such as resilience\, sustainability and fairness. Cu
 rrently\, the world is suffering from an “Atmospheric Tragedy of the Com
 mons” in which every nation is knowingly releasing deadly greenhouse gas
 es in order to selfishly maximize its own economic benefits at the expense
  of  destroying the “Atmospheric Commons” and thereby causing severe 
 climate change which will adversely affect all countries around the globe.
  To overcome this strategically unwise type of individual behavior\, a coo
 perative approach to good governance is suggested which will benefit every
  nation economically in the long term and\, more importantly\, satisfy eth
 ical systems objectives. More specifically\, the “Fee and Dividend” co
 ncept devised by James Hansen and others is suggested as a truly insightfu
 l\, yet simple\, method  for solving the tough strategic decision-making 
 aspects of climate change via: (1) Taxing carbon at its source or point of
  first sale (Fee). (2) Distributing 100% of this tax uniformly to all citi
 zens (Dividend). (3) Negotiating a level of tax for each nation (Liability
 ). (4) Increasing the tax over time in combination with stricter regulatio
 ns to bring atmospheric carbon accumulation to a stipulated level (Surviva
 l). When compared to other alternatives\, such as Cap and Trade\, the “F
 ee and Dividend” idea may form the basis of a feasible and sensible meth
 od for handling climate change in the same way that the 1987 “Montreal P
 rotocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer”\, and its extended v
 ersions thereof\, constitute exceptional international agreements for coop
 eratively controlling the size of the ozone hole before it reached the poi
 nt of no return. Indeed\, the citizens of the world are most grateful to t
 he truly remarkable scientists\, consisting of Mario Molina\, Paul Crutzen
  and Frank Rowland\, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for e
 xplaining how CFCs created the ozone hole. In fact\, responsible governanc
 e is not only needed in proactively combating climate change and the ozone
  hole but in many other highly interconnected complex SoS problems such as
  the failed American financial system\, growing gap between the rich and p
 oor\, unfair medical systems\, irresponsible energy production and usage\,
  widespread pollution of both natural and societal systems\, and unreliabl
 e aging infrastructure. Accordingly\, extensive research is urgently neede
 d for developing a comprehensive theoretical structure for System of Syste
 ms Science and Engineering for suitably solving current and emerging compl
 ex systems problems. 
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