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AGCI workshops provides a much-needed forum to bring together natural and social scientists – ecologists, oceanographers, atmospheric chemists, and climate experts along with political scientists, population dynamicists, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators – enabling them to work together at the cutting edge of a variety of topics of critical importance in the global change arena.
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Food, Conservation and Environmental Change: Is Compromise Possible?
16 August - 29 August 1992
Land use change in the tropics is occurring for a number of reasons, most of which revolve around population growth, poverty, and government policies. The combination of these factors has important implications for biological diversity and global atmospheric and climate change. However, land use changes have generally been made with little references to their potential global consequences. In this AGCI session, participants explored multidisciplinary approaches to decision making that will maximize food production, debt reduction, and poverty alleviation, while minimizing the impact of land use changes on natural resources, biodiversity, and atmospheric processes. View
The Coupled Climate System and Climate Change
2 August - 15 August 1992
Current estimates of future global change rely on coupled models of the climate system. Air-sea interaction is a primary coupled model, but others include atmosphere-biosphere/land, atmosphere-cryosphere, oceans-cyrosphere, and atmosphere-oceans. AGCI convened this meeting to address global change in the coupled climate system via results from component models, coupled models, observations, and impact studies. The goal of this session was to identify connections and interfaces between disciplines and areas of study in the coupled climate system. View
Fresh Water, Land and Biologic Interactions: Changes and Impacts
19 July - 1 August 1992
The hydrological cycle is an essential component of the Earth's climate and biogeochemical systems since it supplies the necessary water resources for sustaining life on land. Greenhouse warming and other real or suspected changes in the earth system will affect the hydrological cycle, and these changes may have important social consequences as well as feedbacks to other components in the global biogeochemical system. Unfortunately, our ability to predict these changes and their impacts is severely constrained by our limited understanding of the basic processes and interactions. The goal of this workshop was to explore the present state of knowledge and identify new approaches to an understanding of the complex hydrologic and biogeochemical system. View
Biodiversity and Development
11 August - 24 August 1991
Human activity has had a significant, negative impact on biodiversity, which has led to more homogenous ecological landscapes. This session explored interdisciplinary aspects of conservation and management of biodiversity resources. Selected topics served as focal points to evaluate necessary collaboration between the natural and social sciences in the search for viable solutions to extinction. View
Biogeochemical Cycles and Population Dynamics
28 July - 10 August 1991
This AGCI session was concerned with linkages between population dynamics and biogeochemical cycles. Participants focused on anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses, the impact of these emissions on climate and terrestrial and aquatic systems, and the prospect for adaptation to and mitigation of this impact. View
Human Dimensions of Global Change
1 August - 6 August 1991
This AGCI workshop explored how humans, interacting within social systems, affect and are affected by global change. At this session, twelve social scientists convened for a workshop aimed at drafting a model illustrating the key human systems that contribute to global change. The model, called the Social Process Diagram, will help natural and social scientists, educators, resource managers, and policy makers envision and analyze how human systems interact to affect global change. View
Remote Sensing, Environmental Change, & Human Health
14 July - 27 July 1991
Natural and induced environmental change is a major concern of our times. It requires the efficient deployment of existing tools and the introduction and testing of new tools. One such tool is the technology of remote sensing and geographical information systems (RS/GIS). In response to uncertainties about existing and prospective technologies, this AGCI meeting explored the relationship between remote sensing, environmental change, and human health. View
Physical, Biological, and Human Dimensions of Global Change
29 July - 19 August 1990
As the first summer session held by AGCI, this meeting provided a forum for understanding the range and complexity of Earth systems and the role of human activity in relation to natural systems. One goal was to provide an environment where scientists and educators with different specialties could come together and learn from each other across disciplines. Participants included teachers, biologists, atmospheric chemists, climatologists, solar physicists, glaciologists, ecologists, and a range of social scientists. View
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