Coastal Climate Change and Demographic Transformation in Bangladesh

11:00 a.m. ET
Valerie Mueller

The recent adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees formally recognizes not only the importance of supporting the 25 million people escaping conflict but also of easing the pressures on receiving areas. Few countries may enforce the resolution out of concern over the repercussions of hosting

Middle-Range Theories of Land System Change

11:00 a.m. ET
Patrick Meyfroidt

Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of land-use/cover changes. Land system science is a maturing field that has produced a wealth of methodological innovations and

Adventures in SES Land

11:00 a.m. ET
Brian McGill

This seminar will summarize four research projects studying socio-environmental systems (SES) also known as coupled natural-human systems (CNH). These projects include: 1) sparsely settled forests of the United States (a past SESYNC project); 2) climate change; 3) the Maine healthy beaches

Rethinking Water Management from an Engineering Perspective

11:00 a.m. ET
Ana Mijic

An integrated approach to water use and protection, which accounts explicitly for trade-offs between human and environmental needs and services, is required to achieve sustainable development. This creates intricate links between three systems—human, technical, and environmental—coupled in a dynamic

Empirical Strategies for Coupling Models of Social and Physical Systems

11:00 a.m. ET
Christa Brelsford

Quantifying interactions between social systems and the physical environment we live within has long been a major scientific challenge.   A better empirical understanding of dynamic interactions between the built environment and urban social structure is necessary to support predictions of how