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Author(s): Organized by Pamela Matson, Robert Kates , and Vaughan Turekian; Moderated by William Clark; Presenters: Pam Matson, Robert Kates, John Schellnhuber, Ed Miles, Bill Turner, Elinor Ostrom, and John Holdren
Citation: AAAS 2007 Annual Meeting
February 17, 2007 - San Francisco, CA
Related Link: Pam Matson: The scope and focus of sustainability science
Related Link #2: Robert Kates: Reducing poverty and hunger in Africa
Related Link #3: Ed Miles: Vulnerability of H-E systems to multiple stresses - The oceans
Related Link #4: Bill Turner : Toward a sustainable land architecture
Related Link #5: Elinor Ostrom: Crafting diversity to cope with diversity in governing S-E systems
URL: http://shop.lawrencemg.com/s087-p-314.html (Audio Recording of the Event)
Sustainability science is an emerging field of research, which integrates the physical, biological, and social sciences as well as medicine and engineering. Core questions will be explored through problem- and place-specific studies presented in this session. How can the dynamic interactions between nature and society be better incorporated in emerging models and conceptualizations that integrate the Earth system, human development, and sustainability? How are long-term trends in environment and development reshaping nature-society interactions in ways relevant to sustainability? What determines the vulnerability or resilience of the nature-society system in particular kinds of places and for particular types of ecosystems and human livelihoods? Can scientifically meaningful "limits" or "boundaries" be defined that would provide effective warning of conditions beyond which the nature-society systems incur a significantly increased risk of serious degradation? What systems of incentive structures can most effectively improve social capacity to guide interactions between nature and society toward more sustainable trajectories? How can today's relatively independent activities of research planning, observation, assessment, and decision support be better integrated into systems for adaptive management and societal learning?
This symposium aimed to advance the dialogue about the grand challenges of sustainability science. Grand challenges of sustainability science are scientific and technological actions that can substantially assist in meeting development goals, making key sectors of human activity sustainable, or fulfilling the sustainability needs of particular peoples and places. Grand challenges identify key sectoral or place-based problems to which scientific and technological research can contribute. Grand challenges require a "middle range" specificity, neither so general as to be all inclusive nor as specific as to be trivial. Because they tackle substantial obstacles or bottlenecks that previous work has failed to overcome, grand challenges are difficult and therefore risky.
This Document is classified within these Core Themes:
Environment
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management
Integrative methods for place-based analysis
Indicators and monitoring
Complex adaptive systems
Case comparison
Agriculture
Poverty and Hunger
Impacts and response
Using large data sets
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EVENTS
2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
February 15, 2007 - San Francisco, CA
American Association for the Advancement of Science
MEMBERS
Pamela Matson
Dean, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, United States
William Clark
Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Harvard University
Robert Kates
Independent Scholar, Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)
B. L. Turner II
Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, Clark University, United States
Vaughan Turekian
Chief International Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science
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