Foreword

engagement. Moving beyond outreach to mobilize traditional environ-

mental knowledge (TEK) and local knowledge and expertise for global
science. Engaging underrepresented sources of innovation and expand-
ing human resources. Connecting science to the public and providing
diversity to policy makers.
• Hazards and Impacts (Payson Sheets and Jago Cooper): Recurring haz-
ards, differential impacts, long-term lessons for vulnerability and resil-
ience, successful and unsuccessful models of response and adaptation.
• Climate Change (Socorro Lozano and Lisa Kennedy): Climate change
impacts, threshold crossings, adaptation versus resilience, past lessons
for future impacts.
• Models and Visualization (Shripad Tuljapurkar and Tiffany Vance):
Digital resources for education, data integration and dissemination,
integrative modeling, and exploration of complex causality and complex
self-organizing adaptive systems.
• Coping and Scale (Tate Paulette and Jeff Quilter): Societies of different
scales have produced cases of both failure and long-term sustainability
in balancing demands of specialization, short-term efficiency, and long-
term flexibility in the face of discontinuous but often rapid changes in
natural and social environments.
• Ecodynamics of Modernity (Steve Mozorowski and Jim Woollett): Past
“world system” impacts since CE 1250, commoditization, repeated pan-
demic impacts, climate change, Columbian exchange, mass migration,
cross-scale integration and linkage, maximum potential for integration
of history, ethnography, archaeology, and multi-indicator environmen-
tal science.

All of these team presentations provoked intense and productive discus-

sions (some of which lasted far into the night), but the Hazards and Impacts
team led by Payson and Jago was a clear “star” session among many very strong
contenders. In part, this reflected the dynamic of the conference, where all par-
ticipants were deeply committed to using their expertise to make concrete and
practical contributions to improving the lives of present and future residents
in their research areas. As discussed fully in Jago and Payson’s introductory
chapter, hazards research provides a well-structured venue for the long-term
perspective to have immediate and positive benefits, and this has attracted
contributors from other Eagle Hill teams to what had been the Hazards and
Impacts team project.

The Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA)

The Eagle Hill meeting resulted in a strong consensus to continue and broaden
discussions begun in Maine, drawing in more teams, disciplines, and world
areas to achieve a genuinely global perspective that could take on projects such

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