GC11D:
Communication as a Driver of Landscape Change Posters


Session ID#: 8846

Session Description:
Existing complementary scholarship in sustainability science, science communication, decision sciences, and climate adaptation emphasize the importance of salience, credibility and legitimacy achieved through iterative, two-way communication, trust-building, and decision-application, leading to use-inspired science and the co-production of knowledge.  Investigations of landscape change in complex social-ecological systems have identified physical, ecological, and social drivers of change including parameters such as climate change, hydrologic change, wildfire, invasive species, land-clearing, policy, regulations and economic incentives.  Building on this foundation, this session explores if and how science communication is a driver of landscape change and the ways in which it is analyzed. We invite theoretical and empirical presentations that address issues such as: How do methods of science communication impact land-use and resource management decisions? How do boundary organizations influence land, resource and policy decisions thereby influencing future pathways of landscape change? How does the co-production of knowledge effect subsequent investigations of landscape change?
Primary Convener:  Sarah Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, Fairbanks, United States
Conveners:  Amanda Robertson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northwest Boreal LCC, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Alison York, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Kristin Timm, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States
Chairs:  Sarah Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, Fairbanks, United States and Kristin Timm, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Tina Marie Buxbaum, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4334 Disaster risk communication [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

“The first step is admitting you have a problem…”: the process of advancing science communication in Landscape Conservation Cooperatives in Alaska (76970)
Sarah Trainor1, Nicole Warner2, Tina Marie Buxbaum2 and Kristin Timm3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, Fairbanks, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States
Science Gone Wild: Using Scientific Rhetoric To Silence Orderly Debate (84071)
Dominique M. Richard, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States and Mairi Pileggi, Dominican University of California, Communications and Media Studies, San Rafel, CA, United States
Salmon Futures: Stakeholder-driven salmon management scenarios under changing environmental conditions on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula (84308)
E. Jamie Trammell and Meagan Krupa, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States
A Prototype Indicators System for U.S. Climate Changes, Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Responses (85815)
Dr. Melissa A Kenney, PhD1, Anthony Janetos2, Michael Gerst3, Ainsley Lloyd3, J. Felix Wolfinger3, Julian J Reyes4, Sarah M Anderson5 and Richard Vincent Pouyat6, (1)University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment, St. Paul, United States, (2)Boston University, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston, MA, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (5)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (6)U.S. Forest service, Washington, DC, United States

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