Landscapes in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Human Connections

这个名为“人类世的风景：探索人类的联系”的研讨会将于2010年3月4日至6日在俄勒冈大学举行。研讨会将为来自不同学科的科学家之间的智力交流提供一个重要的场所，否则他们将很少有机会相互交流。它还将提供一种机制，弥合存在于自然和社会科学鸿沟之间的实际和感知的差距。克服这些障碍将建立一个必要的社区，以促进科学进步，预测和减轻人类引起的地球表面变化，以及将已经发生的变化纳入人类决策过程。拟议的讲习班将发展关于综合人类-景观系统的已知知识，并将建立预测人类影响下地球表面未来的能力。为期两天的活动，包括简短的研究报告，讨论和分组会议，计划满足几个具体目标：确定关键研究问题和跨学科研究的综合联系，检查学科之间的理论和方法方法，评估数据的可用性和需求，探索预测复杂人类景观系统的模型和工具。结果将包括提交给NSF的白皮书，以及可能在学科和跨学科通讯以及面向公众的渠道上发表的研讨会摘要。除了具体的综合研究项目外，该研讨会还有望产生一份多作者的手稿，这些项目将准备由合作团队启动。在过去的几年里，人类和地球表面以一种复杂的方式交织在一起，这一点变得越来越清楚。人们关于建设城市、筑坝和开发自然资源的决定导致了周围环境的根本变化。同样，自然灾害、海平面上升和气候变化对人类的经济和社会结构产生了尖锐和长期的影响。该项目将把来自物理科学和社会科学的研究人员聚集在一起，就解决这些重要问题的方法进行合作，并制定计划，为未来的进展铺平道路。

The workshop, "Landscapes in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Human Connections," will be held 4-6 March, 2010 at the University of Oregon. The workshop will provide an important venue for intellectual cross-fertilization among scientists from disparate disciplines who otherwise would have little opportunity to interact. It will also provide a mechanism to bridge the real and perceived gaps that exist across the natural and social-scientific divide. Overcoming such barriers will build the community necessary to forge scientific advances, to anticipate and mitigate the human-induced changes to Earth's surface, as well as to factor the changes that have already occurred into human decision processes. The proposed workshop will develop knew knowledge of integrated human-landscape systems, and will build capacity to predict the future of Earths surface under human influence. Two days of activities, comprising short research presentations, discussion, and breakout sessions, are planned to meet several specific objectives: identify key research questions and integrative linkages for cross-disciplinary research, examine theoretical and methodological approaches among disciplines, assess data availability and needs, and explore models and tools toward predicting complex human-landscape systems. The outcomes will include a white paper to be submitted to NSF, and summaries of the workshop to be potentially published in disciplinary and interdisciplinary newsletters, as well as in outlets for the public. The workshop is also expected to produce a multi-authored manuscript, in addition to specific integrated research projects that will be ready for launch by collaborative teams. It has become increasingly clear over the past several years that humans and the surface of the Earth are intertwined in a complex manner. Decisions that people make about building cities, damming rivers, and exploiting natural resources cause fundamental changes in the surrounding environment. In like manner, natural disasters, rising sea levels, and climate change have acute and chronic influences on the human economic and social fabric. This project will bring together researchers from the physical and social sciences to collaborate on methods for addressing these important issues, and prepare plans that will pave the way for future progess.