INV12
Earth, Agriculture, and Society: Toward Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene

Tuesday, 15 December 2020: 07:00-11:00
Submitter/Organizer:  Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Co-conveners:  Amilcare M Porporato, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Salvatore Calabrese, Texas A&M University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Sara Cucchiaro, University of Udine, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Udine, Italy and Samantha R Hartzell, Portland State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, United States
07:00
Introductory Remarks
Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy and Amilcare M Porporato, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
07:03
Earth, Agriculture, and Society: towards sustainable development in the Anthropocene (783548)
Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy, Salvatore Calabrese, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Samantha R Hartzell, Portland State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, United States, Sara Cucchiaro, University of Udine, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Udine, Italy; University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Padova, Italy and Amilcare M Porporato, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
07:08
Panel 1 - CROP PRODUCTION (moderator: Amilcare Porporato)
07:13
Sustainable crop production and the dilemma of agricultural intensification (783524)
Maria Cristina Rulli, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, Italy and Paolo D'Odorico, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
07:16
Pathways to sustainability with digital agriculture (783505)
Bruno Basso, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
07:19
Using "system of systems" approach to monitor and model every farmland on our planet (783523)
Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
07:22
Agave americana: a resilient crop for hot and dry regions (783531)
Sarah C Davis, Ohio University, Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs, Athens, OH, United States; Ohio University, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Athens, OH, United States and David Lebauer, University of Arizona, Data Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
07:25
Panel 1 Discussion
07:45
Panel 2 - AGRICULTURAL TERRACES & SOIL CONSERVATION (moderator: Paolo Tarolli)
07:50
Ending the Cinderella Status of Terraces and Lynchets in Europe: The Geomorphology of Agricultural Terraces and Implications for Ecosystem Services and Climate Adaptation (783570)
Antony Brown1,2, Daniel Fallu1, Kevin Walsh3, Sara Cucchiaro4,5, Paolo Tarolli6, Pengzhi Zhao7, Kristof Van Oost8, Lisa Snape9, Andreas Lang9, Rosa Maria Albert10,11, Inger Greve Alsos1 and Clive Waddington12, (1)Arctic University of Tromsø, Tromsø University Museum, Natural Sciences, Tromsø, Norway, (2)University of Southampton, Department of Geography & Environmental Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)University of York, Archaeology, York, United Kingdom, (4)University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Padova, Italy, (5)University of Udine, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Udine, Italy, (6)University of Padua, Padua, Italy, (7)Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, (8)Université Catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, (9)University of Salzburg, Geography and Geology, Salzburg, Austria, (10)Universitat de Barcelona, ERAAUB, Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, Barcelona, Spain, (11)ICREA, Pg. Lluis Companys, Barcelona, Spain, (12)ARS Ltd., Bakewell, United Kingdom
07:53
Maintaining terrace functions and benefiting human: a hard way to achieve the sustainability (783554)
Wei Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
07:56
Check-dam farmland: an effective practice to conserve soil and develop agriculture on the Loess Plateau, China (783565)
Xiangzhou Xu, Dalian University of Technology, School of Hydraulic Engineering, Dalian, China
07:59
Panel 2 Discussion
08:19
Panel 3 - SOIL EROSION AND STRUCTURE (moderator: Sara Cucchiaro)
08:24
Measuring rill erosion at Sparacia experimental area (Sicily, South Italy) (783486)
Alessio Nicosia, University of Palermo, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Science, Palermo, Italy and Vito Ferro, University of Palermo, Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, Palermo, Italy
08:27
How grass contributes to controlling soil erosion (783509)
Chengzhong Pan, Beijing Normal University, College of Water Sciences, Beijing, China
08:30
Natural & managed soil structure: on the fragile scaffolding for soil functioning (783514)
Dani Or, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Dept. of Environmental Syst. Sci., Zürich, Switzerland; DRI Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, Thomas Keller, SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. Soil & Environment, Uppsala, Sweden; Agroscope, Dept. Agroecology & Environment, Zürich, Switzerland and William H Schlesinger, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, United States
08:33
Panel 3 Discussion
08:53
Break
09:11
Panel 4 - WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (moderator: Salvatore Calabrese)
09:16
Unintended consequences of water management in agroecosystems (783532)
Steve W. Lyon1,2, Stefano Manzoni3, John Livsey3, Edmond Alavaisha3, William Senkondo3,4, Samuel A. Miller5 and Jonathan D. Witter6, (1)Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)Stockholm University, Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)University of Dar es Salaam, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (5)Ohio State University, Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, OH, United States, (6)Ohio State University, Agricultural Technical Institute, Columbus, United States
09:19
Allocating marginal water sources to irrigation: effects on soil hydroecological functioning (783500)
Assouline Shmuel, A.R.O. - Volcani center, Department of Environmental Physics and Irrigation, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Bet-Dagan, Israel
09:22
Ecosystem services coming from landscape infrastructures in agroecosystems: example of surface drainage ditches (783520)
Jean-Stephane Bailly1,2, Fabrice Vinatier1, Gabrielle Rudi1,3, Jeanne Dollinger1, Cécile Dagès1, Marc Voltz1 and Philippe Lagacherie1, (1)LISAH, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, Montpellier, France, (2)AgroParisTech, Paris, France, (3)G-eau, Univ Montpellier, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, INRAE, IRD, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
09:25
Panel 4 Discussion
09:45
Panel 5 - LAND DEGRADATION IN DRYLANDS (moderator: Samantan R Hartzell)
09:50
Agriculture as major land degradation and desertification driver in drylands (783519)
Fernando T. Maestre1,2, Jaime Martínez-Valderrama3 and Emilio Guirado1, (1)Universidad de Alicante, Multidisciplinary Institute for Environment Studies "Ramón Margalef”, Alicante, Spain, (2)Universidad de Alicante, Department of Ecology, Alicante, Spain, (3)Universidad de Alicante, Multidisciplinary Institute for Environment Studies "Ramón Margalef", Alicante, Spain
09:53
Land degradation in semiarid agricultural catchments: Risks, soil health and ecosystem services (783533)
Tal Svoray, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Beer Sheva, Israel
09:56
Panel 5 Discussion
10:16
Panel 6 - AGRICULTURE AND GLOBAL CHANGE (moderator: Paolo Tarolli)
10:21
Earth’s transformation through land use: sharing the terrestrial biosphere fairly and sustainably to shape a better Anthropocene (783517)
Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States
10:24
Global Change, Mesoamerican wetland farming, and the Early Anthropocene (783553)
Timothy Beach1, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach1, Takeshi Inomata2, Juan Carlos Fernandez Diaz3, Byron A Smith4 and Jed Dale5, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Arizona, School of Anthropology, Tucson, United States, (3)National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, United States, (5)Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States
10:27
Session Roundtable Discussion (Panel 6 + others) - moderator Paolo Tarolli & Amilcare Porporato
10:54
Concluding Remarks
Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy and Amilcare M Porporato, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
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