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Annual meeting 22-24 h Nov 2010, Dunkeld

SAGES Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment & Society. Annual meeting 22-24 h Nov 2010, Dunkeld. Theme 4 (Society) Mark Rounsevell, University of Edinburgh Ioan Fazey, University of St Andrews. Identified research challenges.

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Annual meeting 22-24 h Nov 2010, Dunkeld

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  1. SAGES Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment & Society Annual meeting 22-24h Nov 2010, Dunkeld Theme 4 (Society) Mark Rounsevell, University of Edinburgh Ioan Fazey, University of St Andrews

  2. Identified research challenges • Vulnerability & adaptation to environmental change including health • Climate management and energy policy including individual and social behaviours • Ecosystem services and their beneficiaries and environmental governance • Land use, landscapes and soils

  3. Some new research activities • EU Framework 7 proposal on tipping points in socio-ecological systems (Dundee and Edinburgh) • Human ecodynamics project (St Andrews and Edinburgh) • MRC proposal on vulnerability and resilience to heat waves in older people (Glasgow and Edinburgh) • …

  4. Questions to focus on • Can we model human behaviour at a global scale? • role in global ecosystem models • role in global climate models • Can we better understand human adaptation processes using empirical evidence from change in the past? • role in developing understanding of human processes • role in supporting model of human behaviour • How can we use workshops, publications and grant applications within SAGES to tackle these research questions?

  5. Research workshops • Workshop 1 on modelling human behaviour • Workshop 2 on understanding adaptation and resilience • Workshop 3 on using the empirical evidence to support model development for human systems • Concept papers (published) arising from each workshop • Leading to grant applications for implementation of research plan • Process could feed into the evolving Millennium Assessment for Human Behaviour (MAHB)

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