GC11K:
Foundations for (Under)Standing: Interdisciplinary Insights on Global Change Posters


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Session ID#: 51741

Session Description:
Interdisciplinary approaches that include the social sciences provide valuable insights that are fundamental for understanding of the drivers, impacts and vulnerability of climate change, and the social, cultural and behavioral challenges related to climate change responses. Successful mitigation and adaptation efforts require the methods, perspectives, and data of multiple disciplines beyond the natural sciences, including (but not limited to) anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, and sociology. This session will showcase case studies, methodologies, and synthetic assessments that engage multiple disciplines in topics relevant to the science of global change, bridging the natural and social sciences, as well as deepening public understanding, and policy perspectives.
Primary Convener:  Libby K Larson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Convener:  Ashley Bieniek-Tobasco, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Libby K Larson, NASA, Washington, United States
Chairs:  Libby K Larson, NASA, Washington, United States and Ashley Bieniek-Tobasco, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Libby K Larson, NASA, Washington, United States

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

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Assessing Fire Trends, Economic Effects, and Adaptive Management Strategies in the Intermountain West (387231)
Ryan T. Choi1, Emily Esplin2, Muyang Ge3, Natalie Gillard4, Jeffrey Haight4, Liana Prudencio4, Patrick Belmont4 and Courtney Flint5, (1)Utah State University, Department of Wildland Resources, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Department of Environment and Society, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance, Logan, UT, United States, (4)Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States, (5)Utah State University, Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, Logan, UT, United States
Valuing Blue Carbon in Shrinking Mid-Atlantic Backbarrier Marshes (449851)
Meredith Kurz1, Sunny Jardine2, Christopher J Hein3 and George Parsons1, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (3)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States

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