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This document discusses the emergence of human-environment systems research as a field that utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to study the interactions between human and natural systems. It addresses key concepts in this field like landscape, feedback mechanisms, resilience, and spatial distributions and processes. The document traces how social scientists became involved in global environmental change research in the late 1980s and established this area of study. It also highlights some of the challenges of this research in requiring collaboration across disciplines.
This document discusses the emergence of human-environment systems research as a field that utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to study the interactions between human and natural systems. It addresses key concepts in this field like landscape, feedback mechanisms, resilience, and spatial distributions and processes. The document traces how social scientists became involved in global environmental change research in the late 1980s and established this area of study. It also highlights some of the challenges of this research in requiring collaboration across disciplines.
This document discusses the emergence of human-environment systems research as a field that utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to study the interactions between human and natural systems. It addresses key concepts in this field like landscape, feedback mechanisms, resilience, and spatial distributions and processes. The document traces how social scientists became involved in global environmental change research in the late 1980s and established this area of study. It also highlights some of the challenges of this research in requiring collaboration across disciplines.
coupled human natural systems reasearch/coupled human and natural system (CHANS)refers to an integrated scientific agenda for studying the border and mutual interaction that link human to natural sub-system of the planet. According to world reowned social anthropologist Emilio Moran, It is a cross- disciplinary venture based on the belief that social and natural systems are inseparable. It deals withbroader studies into the intricate nature of mutual interaction and feedback between humans on the environment and the effect of the environment on human This has been a result of several factors such as evidence for climate change, loss of biodiversity, Rapid deforestation, and an imminent crisis is the availabilityof potable water. Global environment change until 1988 was carried out by earth science disciplines such as metereology, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric sciences and geology. In 1987 the international Geosphere Biospere Program(IGBP) was initiated because of the need for an international joint research enterprise on the phenomenon of global change. From 1987 to 1990 a special committee was tasked to initiate the planning and implementation of the program, and in 1988 this team, composed of around 500 scientists turned to social scientist and asked them to collaborate with them in an effort to understand the human dimensions of global environmental change. In1992, they were able to publish the book, Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions, which set the tone for research in this area.It focused on climate change,biodiversity,pollution, and international environmenttal pacts driven by a rising awareness of global impacts such as build-up of earth-warming gases, the increasing amount of ultraviolet radiation due to The change in the appearance of ozone layer, and proof of glacier meltdowns. Because of these global changes, human-environment research became important (Moron 2010) Landscape is an important concept in the study of coupled human- environment systems. It refers not only to the beautiful spot that you view from a scenic perspective but the mixture of environmental and human phenomena that coexist together in a specific place on the Earth. Landscape includes physical features such as rivers, hills, forests, and soils as well as human-made buildings, roads, bridges, and mines. In a landscape-centric view, none of the said features is absolutely separate the human from the non-human. Inunderstanding how landscapes change over time and the individual’s sense of place in these changes, interpreting mind maps as well as thematic maps might be useful. Mental and thematic maps provide us with the necessary means of making sense of the world and of storing information about how human interactions with the environment create and change landscapes and The roles people play in these changes, and how these changes affect people. They may help us understand and explain environmental and social issues by analyzing spatial processes and spatial distribution. Spatialdistributions are concerned with who or what is being observed, as well as when and where it is being observed while spatial processes focus on why and how spatial distributions exist. Another important concept is feedback mechanism, which refers to the phenomenon of system components both affecting each other and which creates a feedback loop:Feedback is affect to a system component that is a result of an action done by that component The positive feedback • A condition in which carrying out an action causes more performances of the action. A condition in which carrying our an action cause fewer performances of the action Isanother key concept in human- environment systems. It refers to the ability for something to be maintained. It is the capacity of a system to maintain its health and continue in exsistence over a period of time. Afamous geographer, encouraged environmental thinkers to study the humanized environment, or the idea that the environment is influenced by human activity, terms of landscape during the early and mid-twentieth century. Is an American geographer whose research interests include historical geography, regional geography, cultural geography, social geography, and landscape interpretation. Utilizinga multidisciplinary approach in the study of the interelations between human and environment. Brings together scholar from the field of science and social science to analyze the role of people in global environmental changes. Since human-environment systems research requires a multidisciplinary approach it requires bringing together a large team of scholars, scientists as well as social scientist.which is not easy thing to do given the fact that most scholars prefer to work alone than in team.