GC34A:
Fingerprinting the Anthropocene: Observing and Understanding Social Change Across Earth's Landscapes I


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Session ID#: 59009

Session Description:
Human transformation of landscapes is both ancient and accelerating across most of Earth's land surface. Mass urbanization and rising per capita resource use are driving agricultural intensification, large-scale land acquisitions and global supply chain demands that are reshaping landscapes globally. The large-scale impacts of globalizing societies are profoundly altering Earth’s topography, climate, ecosystems, biodiversity, soil physical and chemical properties, and associated earth surface processes. Remote sensing is essential for monitoring these social dynamics in landscape form and functioning, towards understanding and addressing their causes and consequences for both societies and non-human nature. This session focuses on research aimed at advancing technologies for observing and understanding socially-driven changes in landscapes from local to global scale, from prehistory to present, including remote sensing, machine learning, big data analytics and other empirical and modelling approaches. Technological advances are critical if societies are to recognize, assess and address rapid social changes in Earth's surface.
Primary Convener:  Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Conveners:  Prof. Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States, Jinwei Dong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Damian Evans, École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Chairs:  Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy and Prof. Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1926 Geospatial [INFORMATICS]
4323 Human impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Strategy for Monitoring Human-induced Land Change at the Global Scale (Invited) (399918)
Matthew Hansen1, Peter Potapov1, Alexandra Tyukavina1, Xiao-Peng Song2, Marc Steininger3, Svetlana Turubanova1, Amy Hudson Pickens1, Viviana Zalles4, Patrick Kuburhanwa Lola Amani5 and Qing Ying6, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (2)Univeristy of Maryland, College Park, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (4)World Resources Institute, Washington, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NASA GSFC/UMD ESSIC, College Park, United States
LiDAR and the Early Anthropocene in the Maya Tropical Forest (Invited) (370841)
Tim Beach, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, United States and Colin Doyle, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, United States
Making stratigraphy in the Anthropocene: the importance of glocalization in the sediments of Lake Geneva (406699)
Stuart N Lane, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland and The SEDFATE team (Sediment fate in a changing watershed during the Anthropocene)
Modelling the effect of contaminants from metal mines to study the impact on global floodplain ecosystems (409699)
Dilkushi de Alwis Pitts and Mark G Macklin, University of Lincoln, School of Geography, Lincoln, United Kingdom

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