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BECS - TOPICS
People-Environment Interactions People and Climate Variation People and Resource Decisions People and Adaptation to Change People, Risk, and Resilience Research, Education, and Evaluation
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People-Environment Interactions |
Homo sapiens has changed the physical, ecological, and biological components of the Earth’s planetary systems to a degree far beyond that of any other species. Those environmental changes impact human populations in return, and continue to shift, often in unanticipated ways. BECS seeks to inform the transitions that society will need to make to sustain and improve human well-being in the face of environmental change, and to provide insights that will help limit environmental degradation.
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Current Projects Sustainability Science: Preparing for 9 Billion on the Planet
This project will be a public workshop that will examine key underlying paradigms of both social and natural science, as they relate to human population size, population growth, aging populations, migration toward cities, and differential resource consumption, land use change, etc. Read more... |
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Related Reports
 | Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis
(BECS)
2013
Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events--slowly at first, but then more quickly. It is prudent to...
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 | Facilitating Climate Change Responses:A Report of Two Workshops on Insights from the Social and Behavioral Sciences
(BECS)
2010
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, understanding the need for policy makers at the national level to entrain the behavioral and social sciences in addressing the challenges of global climate...
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 | Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change
(BECS)
2009
Climate change is one of the most important global environmental problems facing the world today. Policy decisions are already being made to limit or adapt to climate change and its impacts, but there...
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 | New Directions in Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment:Summary of a Workshop
(BECS)
2009
With effective climate change mitigation policies still under development, and with even the most aggressive proposals unable to halt climate change immediately, many decision makers are focusing...
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 | Putting People on the Map: Protecting Confidentiality with Linked Social-Spatial Data
(BECS)
2007
Precise, accurate spatial information linked to social and behavioral data is revolutionizing social science by opening new questions for investigation and improving understanding of human behavior in...
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 | Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions
(BECS)
2005
Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions offers recommendations for future research to improve understanding of how changes in human populations affect the natural environment by...
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 | Science for the Sustainability Transition
2002
Sustainability is one of today s many pressing issues that the National Academies addresses via studies and other mechanisms. National Academies studies relevant to sustainability are numerous and...
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 | The Drama of the Commons
(BECS)
2002
Introduction 1 The Drama of the Commons Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolak, Elinor Ostrom, and Paul C. Stern Part I: Resource Users, Resource Systems, and Behavior in the Drama of the Commons 2 Common...
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 | Making Climate Forecasts Matter
(BECS)
1999
El Nino has been with us for centuries, but now we can forcast it, and thus can prepare far in advance for the extreme climatic events it brings. The emerging ability to forecast climate may be of...
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 | People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science
(BECS)
1998
Space-based sensors are giving us an ever-closer and more comprehensive look at the earth's surface; they also have the potential to tell us about human activity. This volume examines the...
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 | Environmentally Significant Consumption:Research Directions
(BECS)
1997
There has been much polemic about affluence, consumption, and the global environment. For some observers, "consumption" is at the root of global environmental threats: wealthy individuals and...
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