GC31G:
The Human Process and Wicked Problems in Earth’s Future Posters


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Session ID#: 48313

Session Description:
Environmental problems are increasingly recognized as wicked, referring to the convergence of multiple hazards set in a complex human-natural system, where stakeholders are numerous and diverse, and solutions involve environmental and/or socio-economic-political trade-offs. Sustainability science research suggests that what elevates environmental problems from difficult to seemingly intractable is the role and behaviour of humans, at scales from individual to institutional.

Our understanding within the Earth science community, however, is largely cloaked in the disciplines of environmental and global change science. Complementary analyses of the human process, particularly from a behavioural perspective, are available in the disciplines of sociology, social sciences, behavioural economics, psychology, marketing, business, land-use planning, environmental history, deep geography, and others.

Our session aims to bring together this variety of perspectives that document, illustrate and quantify human behavior (individual to institutional) as a human process within the context of describing and developing solutions for wicked environmental problems.

Primary Convener:  Michael A Ellis, British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, NG12, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Nancy B Grimm, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States and Guy P Brasseur, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michael A Ellis, British Geological Survey, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Michael A Ellis, British Geological Survey, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom and Guy P Brasseur, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael A Ellis, British Geological Survey, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings) [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Earthcasting: Geomorphic Prediction for Society (456140)
Kerri N Johnson, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Behrooz Ferdowsi, University of Houston, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, John D Gartner, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Alan Kasprak, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Kimberly Litwin Miller, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, William Nardin, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, Alejandra C Ortiz, North Carolina State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States and Alejandro Tejedor, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Urban Heat Waves, Climate Change, Air Conditioning, and the Value of Urban Forests for Shade: A Feedback Loop (466412)
Robert Ian McDonald, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, United States; The Nature Conservancy, Global Cities Program, Arlington, VA, United States
Considering Heatwaves Spatial Properties for Improving Local Adaption and Mitigation Strategies (369771)
Javad Shafiei Shiva, Syracuse University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States and David G Chandler, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
Quantifying the Relationship between Inequality and the Stability and Sustainability of the Coupled Societal-Environmental System in New Orleans (387605)
Shruti Singh, Complex Systems Laboratory & Department of Physics, University of California – San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, BT Werner, University of California - San Diego, Complex Systems Laboratory; Climate, Atmospheric Science and Physical Oceanography Division, La Jolla, United States and Dylan McNamara, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States
Exploring the Effects of Artificial Dune Construction on Beachfront Property Values along New Jersey’s Coastline: Insights from a “Geo-Economic” Model (402408)
Jesse Kolodin1, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba2, Christopher Tenebruso3, Porter Hoagland4, Di Jin4 and Andrew D Ashton5, (1)Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States, (2)University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (3)Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States
Unsafe at any speed? The velocity of coastal risk along the U.S. Atlantic Coast (408419)
Scott B. Armstrong, University of Southampton, Geography & Environment, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Eli Lazarus, University of Southampton, Geography & Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom
Exploring Optimal Community Coordination along Developed Sandy Coasts: Long-term Management within a Groin Field (409086)
Arye Janoff1, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba2, Porter Hoagland3, Di Jin3 and Andrew D Ashton4, (1)Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States, (2)University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States
Human-drought interactions in the Anthropocene (429422)
Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Linking Scenario Planning with Coupled Natural-Human System Model Development: An Example from Northwest Costa Rica (444061)
Kathleen Vazquez, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States

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