U14A:
Can We Manage Earth's Future?


Note: Abstract submissions to Union sessions are by invitation only.


Session ID#: 53201

Session Description:
Meeting the challenges of the Anthropocene is a daunting task. It will require forging new connections between the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities because it is human desires, decisions, and behaviors, and their complex interplay with the environment, that will increasingly shape the future of climate, water, and ecosystem evolution around the world. Building these linkages is critical to ensure that the tremendous academic and intellectual output of the geoscience community is put to effective use in a world dominated by political, economic, cultural, and other social factors. Through a combination of invited talks and a discussion period, this session charts a course for the next generation of integrated Earth system models that recognize “human systems science” as the emerging central science of the Anthropocene.
OSPA Liaison:  Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Convener:  Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, Center for Education Through Exploration, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Stephen J Romaniello, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Hilairy Ellen Hartnett, University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Linda R Rowan, UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States and Linda R Rowan, UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Organized with:
Union, Public Affairs, Biogeosciences, and Global Environmental Change

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0485 Science policy [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Can we manage Earth's future? (Invited) (377249)
Ken Caldeira, Gates Ventures, Kirkland, United States
Integrated human-earth system modeling (Invited) (407316)
Katherine V Calvin and Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States
Managing Earth's Land: From Parcels to Planet (Invited) (378407)
Prof. Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States
MANAGING OR 'BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS'? ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DESIGN OF DESIRABLE FUTURES (Invited) (392737)
Joni L Adamson, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

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