Conference on the Earth as Transformed by Human Action, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 25-30, 1987

该奖项将为参与者提供部分旅行支持， 一个关于“人类活动改变的地球”的研讨会， 1987年10月举行。 研讨会将汇集40位领导人 环境科学领域的学者，他们将发表原创论文， 记录了过去人类活动对全球生物圈变化的影响 三百年 在研讨会上提出的材料将是 通过基于论文的学术卷进行传播， 讨论和其他渠道。 这次研讨会将加深我们对复杂的理解 全球人类与自然环境的关系 和大区域尺度。 它还将探讨社会进程， 与这些关系相关的社会科学理论

This award will provide partial travel support for participants in a symposium on "The Earth as Transformed by Human Action" that will be held in October, 1987. The symposium will bring together 40 leading scholars in the environmental sciences who will present original papers that document human effects on global biospheric changes over the past 300 years. The materials presented at the symposium will be disseminated through a scholarly volume based on the papers and discussion and via other channels. This symposium will deepen our understanding of the complex relationships between mankind and the physical environment at global and large-region scales. It will also explore the social processes and social-scientific theories relevant to those relationships.