Recording Plan: 

Curated Track: 

Joris Van Zeghbroeck, Michigan State University

Call For Participation

Description:

The modern world is increasingly interconnected, with nearly every natural area being affected by human systems in some way. This increased human influence has led to drastic unintended changes which disrupt natural system dynamics and can lead to a multitude of sustainability challenges. To address current sustainability problems, it is essential to understand how systems around the world interact with one another. The concept of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) evolved from human-environment interactions and offers a way to examine the reciprocal interactions between anthropogenic and natural systems.

This session welcomes papers that advance the understanding of coupled human natural systems in a single geographic area, across adjacent areas, or across distant areas. Papers that highlight applications of CHANS, telecoupling, and metacoupling to novel domains; advance the quantitative and qualitative geospatial methods used to address interactions in or between CHANS; and evaluate the impacts of shocks across CHANS are particularly encouraged.

Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
Direct and indirect environmental impacts of global trade
Uncertainty in spatial and systems modeling
Spatiotemporal analysis of land change in CHANS
Multi-scale analysis of environmental change
Case studies in the hazards/disaster realm emphasizing indirect and/or cascading effects
Reviews that explore innovative research disciplines using CHANS frameworks
The impacts of socio-economic flows on the environment

Non-Presenting Participants