GC045
Incorporating Human Sciences into Geophysical and Biophysical Global Change Research to Tackle Challenges at the Nexus of Food Insecurity, Water Scarcity, Human Health, and Conflict

Session ID#: 82709

Session Description:
The Anthropocene has been defined as an era of human-induced global change (climate change, land use change, altered hydrology cycle, and novel species assemblages) that has also given rise to multiple intersecting impacts of food insecurity, water scarcity, human health, and conflict. All too often our geophysical and biophysical models for understanding global change seek to reduce complexity by only incorporating human behavior or activities as an unidirectional component. This session seeks advancements in multidisciplinary research that address these challenges and incorporate human sciences and human activities as dynamic components of coupled human-natural systems and models. In addition to innovative approaches to integrate human sciences with the physical sciences, we encourage contributions that bridging different operational scales of multi-disciplinary research including models, conceptual frameworks, and case studies.
Co-Organized:
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0299 General or miscellaneous [GEOHEALTH]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1899 General or miscellaneous [HYDROLOGY]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]

Primary Convener:  Annette Trierweiler, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Regan, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Gopal Penny, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Annette Trierweiler, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
A Transdisciplinary Examination of Food Insecurity and Sustainability on Lake Tanganyika (594068)
Joan Brehm1, Catherine O'Reilly2, Peter Stæhr, Ismael A Kimirei4, Charles Lugomela5, Emmanuel A. Sweke6, William L Perry7, Dennis Trolle8, Torben Lauridsen9, Karsten Bolding9, Magnus Ngoile5, Paul Onyango5, Johnny H. Larsen10, Jesper H. Christensen11, Gideon Bulengela5, Prisca Mziray5, Huruma Mgana5 and Benjamin S. Lowe12, (1)Illinois State University, Normal, IL, United States, (2)Illinois State University, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal, IL, United States, (3)Researcher, Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute, Kigoma, Tanzania, (4)University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (5)Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute, Kigoma, Tanzania, (6)Illinois State University, School of Biological Sciences, Normal, United States, (7)Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, (8)Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, (9)Enavigo Consulting, Aarhus, Denmark, (10)Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus C, Denmark, (11)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
 
Quantifying global shocks to self-assessed household food insecurity (597861)
Alan F Hamlet1, Gopal Penny2, Annette Trierweiler3, Rachel Gurney4, Nima Ehsani5, Amir Said Siraj6, Liguang Li7, Sisi Meng4 and Patrick Regan8, (1)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (5)University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, South Bend, IN, United States, (6)Insel Hiddensee, Germany, (7)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (8)University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
Toward A More Comprehensive and Integrative Approach to Multidisciplinary Food Insecurity Research (609611)
Rachel Gurney1, Nima Ehsani2, Amir Said Siraj3, Liguang Li4, Annette Trierweiler5, Gopal Penny6, Sisi Meng1, Patrick Regan7 and Alan F Hamlet8, (1)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, South Bend, IN, United States, (3)Insel Hiddensee, Germany, (4)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (7)University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (8)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
A Human-Land System Dynamics Model of Ancient China: A Case Study in the Downfall of the Western Han Dynasty (493894)
Yanxin Liu and Xiaodong Yan, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
 
Effects of climatically shifting species distributions on biocultural relationships in New Zealand (497796)
Matthew Bond1,2, Barbara J. Anderson2, Te Hemo Ata Henare3 and Priscilla M. Wehi2,4, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Landcare Research NZ, Dunedin, New Zealand, (3)Northtec, Whangarei, New Zealand, (4)Te Pūnaha Matatini, Auckland, New Zealand
 
Implications of the Syrian Civil War and Migration Crisis on Virtual Water Trade (500287)
Adam Wiechman1, Gopal Penny2 and Marc Muller1, (1)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Water and Food Security in Case of Exogenous Shocks: The Case of Qatar’s Blockade (515390)
Annamaria Mazzoni, QEERI, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
 
Human Health and Biophysical Global Change: The Strange and Perplexing Case of Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis) (Invited) (518684)
Andrew C Comrie, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
THE IMPACTS OF GLOBAL WARMING AND CHANGING WEATHER PATTERNS ON HUMAN CONFLICT (Invited) (581823)
Andrew M. Linke, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and John O'Loughlin, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The impacts of facilities’ carbon emissions trading on human and environmental health (583860)
Yiqi Tang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Vatican City
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