Human Dimensions of Global Change
This AGCI workshop was a subset of the workshop “Biogeochemical Cycles and Population Dynamics.” It explored how humans and their social systems, affect and are affected by global change. At this session, social scientists drafted a model illustrating the key human systems that contribute to global change. The model, called the Social Process Diagram, (later published by CIESIN) provided guidance to the human dimensions of the global change research community in a similar fashion to the Bretherton Diagram of basic Earth systems. The overall goal was to help natural and social scientists, educators, resource managers, and policy makers envision and analyze how human systems interact to affect global change.
Keywords: economics, society, global change, human interactions
Workshop Agenda
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10:00 am CIESIN Overview and Explanation of Wiring Diagram Presented by William Kuhn
11:00 am Presentation of Climsoc Model and Social Science Wiring Diagram Presented by Ellen Wiegandt, Urs Luterbacher
10:00 am Global Environmental Change and Agricultural and Economic Systems Presented by Frederic Pryor
1:30 pm Evolution of Co-Cultural Complexity and Global Environmental Change Presented by Stephen A. Kowalewski
3:00 pm Climatic and Environmental Change and Evolution of Production Systems Presented by Frank Hole
1:30 pm Population Dynamics and Environmental Global Change Presented by Paul Demeny
3:30 pm Energy models and global environmental change Presented by Jae Edmonds
12:00 am Resource Economics and Global Environmental Change Presented by Gary Yohe
12:00 am Discussion on Wiring Diagram Revision Presented by Urs Luterbacher
12:00 am Discussion of Scenarios to Use in Wiring Diagram
12:00 am Political Issues and Global Environmental Change Presented by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
12:00 am Decision Making and Global Change Presented by Christopher Achen
12:00 am Methodological Issues and Global Change
12:00 am Wiring Diagram Scenarios Presented by Urs Luterbacher
12:00 am Graphic Representations of Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
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