Speakers
Description
Human activities are critical determinants of many sustainability challenges faced by human-Earth systems, such as climate change mitigation or adaptation. Yet, human decision making is still underrepresented in Earth system science models. This break-out session will explore opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration within Topic 5, aiming to harness its wide range of social and biophysical science perspectives to develop novel analysis approaches.
Presentations: Examples of interdisciplinary analyses
1. Interdisciplinary sustainability assessment of production systems (Walther Zeug, UFZ)
2. Better understanding regional feedbacks in coupled human-Earth systems for climate mitigation and adaptation: examples from regional climate-land system modelling and questions for the future (Diana Rechid, hereon)
3. Coupled hydro-economic multi-agent modelling approach for low water planning in Thuringia (Simon Werner, UFZ)
4. Catchment-scale digital twin systems (cDTS) for hazard assessment and mitigation. (Hui Tang, GFZ)
Discussion input: The need for interdisciplinary collaboration in human-Earth systems modeling (Christian Klassert, UFZ)
World café: Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration
1. Human behavior as an input to biophysical models
2. Modeling the impacts of biophysical model outputs on human systems
3. Two-way coupling of human and biophysical models
4. Human-Earth systems models for transdisciplinary research and science communication
