Coupling Humans and Complex Ecological Landscapes

2009 US-IALE Symposium

Snowbird, Utah | April 12-16, 2009

Oral Presentations by Session

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A1 - Complexity in Human-Nature Interactions I A2 - Complexity in Human-Nature Interactions II A3 - Complexity in Human-Nature Interactions III A4 - Landscape Conservation and Poverty Alleviation I A5 - Landscape Conservation and Poverty Alleviation II A6 - Agent-Based Modelling of Land-use Effects I A7 - Agent-Based Modelling of Land-use Effects II A8 - Agent-Based Modelling of Land-use Effects III B1 - The Social Context of Landscape Conservation B2 - Fire and Landscapes I B3 - Fire and Landscapes II B4 - Expert Knowledge and Landscape Applications B5 - Landscape Ecology and Climate Change B6 - Ecosystem Services and Human Well Being B7 - Landscape-level Experiments and Climate Change B8 - Soundscape Ecology C1 - Remote Sensing of Landscapes I C2 - Remote Sensing of Landscapes II C3 - Remote Sensing of Landscapes III C4 - Road Ecology C5 - Ecological Risk Assessment C6 - Ecosystem Management I C7 - Ecosystem Management II C8 - Ecosystem Management III C9 - Disturbance on Landscapes D1 - Habitat Modelling Across Landscapes D2 - Biogeography I D3 - Biogeography II D4 - Riparian Landscapes I D5 - Riparian Landscapes II D6 - Forest Landscapes and Ecology I D7 - Forest Landscapes and Ecology II D8 - Forest Landscapes and Ecology III D9 - Forest Landscapes and Ecology IV E1 - Conservation Biology I E2 - Conservation Biology II E3 - Conservation Biology III E4 - Conservation Biology IV E5 - Conservation Biology V E6 - Urban Landscapes E7 - Social Issues and Landscapes I E8 - Social Issues and Landscapes II F1 - Spatial Analysis and Landscapes I F2 - Spatial Analysis and Landscapes II F3 - Spatial Analysis and Landscapes III F4 - Spatial Analysis and Landscapes IV F5 - Landscape Change I F6 - Landscape Change II F7 - Landscape Change III F8 - Landscape Change IV F9 - Landscape Change V

A1 - Complexity in Human-Nature Interactions I
Date:	Monday (2009-04-13)
Time:	9:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Room:	Ball Room 2
Session Chair(s):	Jianguo (Jack) Liu and William McConnell
Session Abstract: This symposium fits perfectly with the theme of US-IALE2009. It will present original and innovative research on the complexity in human-nature interactions across multiple scales (spatial, temporal, and organizational) and from a landscape perspective. Examples of complexity include emergent properties, surprises, time lags, legacy effect, path dependence, heterogeneity, feedback loops, discontinuities, criticality, thresholds, nonlinearities, reciprocal interactions, and ripple effects. While humans and nature have interacted since the beginning of human history, unpacking the complexity in human-nature interactions remains a central challenge for the scientific community and for society to understand and achieve environmental and socioeconomic sustainability. An increasing number of scholars around the world have been exploring complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS, see example reviews in Science 317: 1513-1516 (2007) and Ambio 36:639-649 (2007)), but much more work on CHANS complexity is required. This symposium will emphasize reciprocal interactions between human and natural systems, whereas many previous studies emphasized either human impacts on the environment or impacts of the environment on humans. Although not every presentation in this symposium can address every aspect of complexity, the symposium as a whole will constitute a nice collection of improvements in understanding complexity.
9:40 - 10:00 Heidi Asbjornsen Enhancing Biophysical and Socioeconomic Functions of Agroecosystems in the Midwestern U.S. Through Strategic Integration of Perennial Vegetation 10:00 - 10:20 Nicholas Brozovic Coupling Hydrologic and Economic Models to Reduce Parameter and Policy Uncertainty in Resource Assessment of Irrigation Pumping Impacts 10:20 - 10:40 Laurie Drinkwater Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Hypoxia and the Mississippi River Basin as a Model System 10:40 - 11:00 Daniel Holland Managing Coupled Fishery Systems: The Case of a Bait-Dependent Fishery 11:00 - 11:20 Michael Monticino Modeling Coupled Natural and Human Systems: Cross-Site and Cross-Cultural Synthesis 11:20 - 11:40 Guillermo Podesta Agent Based Simulation of Recent Changes in Agricultural Systems of the Argentine Pampas 11:40 - 12:00 Charles Redman Agricultural Landscapes in Transition: A Socio-ecological Approach

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