Earth System Visioning http://www.icsu-visioning.org   Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:57:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How can we get all scientists and engineers to serve their “whistles-blowing” role when necessary to protect public health, saftey, or welfare or otherwise uphold and defend the values and codes of ethics of their professions? What are the reasons and factors at play when they fail to serve this role? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/how-can-we-get-all-scientists-and-engineers-to-serve-their-whistles-blowing-role/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/how-can-we-get-all-scientists-and-engineers-to-serve-their-whistles-blowing-role/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:55:37 +0000 jpcarson http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1192 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/how-can-we-get-all-scientists-and-engineers-to-serve-their-whistles-blowing-role/feed/ 0 How to understand empirical scale relations on the various components of multifunctionality across gradients in management intensity, and their consequences for the scale dependence of tradeoff functions? When is functional segregation better for overall effect, when can fine-grained multifunctionality survive the pressures to specialize? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/how-to-understand-empirical-scale-relations-on-the-various-components/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/how-to-understand-empirical-scale-relations-on-the-various-components/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:50:09 +0000 Meine van Noordwijk http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1270 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/how-to-understand-empirical-scale-relations-on-the-various-components/feed/ 0 RQ1. What could and should be done – on any reasonably large scale – to close the huge psychological gap (and clarify the causal chains) between citizen’s everyday ‘here and now’ and the long-term and far-away risks and impacts of gradually deteriorating environmental conditions (e.g., in forests, oceans, the atmosphere)? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/rq1-what-could-and-should-be-done-%e2%80%93-on-any-reasonably-large-scale-%e2%80%93-to-close-the-huge-psychological-gap-and-clarify-the-causal-chains-between-citizen%e2%80%99s-everyday-%e2%80%98her/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/rq1-what-could-and-should-be-done-%e2%80%93-on-any-reasonably-large-scale-%e2%80%93-to-close-the-huge-psychological-gap-and-clarify-the-causal-chains-between-citizen%e2%80%99s-everyday-%e2%80%98her/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:38:50 +0000 CVlek http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1905 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/rq1-what-could-and-should-be-done-%e2%80%93-on-any-reasonably-large-scale-%e2%80%93-to-close-the-huge-psychological-gap-and-clarify-the-causal-chains-between-citizen%e2%80%99s-everyday-%e2%80%98her/feed/ 0 Model experiments, intercomparisons and data evaluation are needed to quantify and help with management decisions and, ultimately, to provide scientific knowledge to improve the sustainability of the living Earth. Which interactive physical, chemical and biological processes – including the role of human activities from global to regional and at short and long timescales – are fundamental to study in order to gain a deeper understanding of the Earth System and priority areas such as vulnerability, impacts and adaptation? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/model-experiments-intercomparisons-and-data-evaluation-are-needed-to-quantify-and-help-with-management-decisions-and-ultimately-to-provide-scientific-knowledge-to-improve-the-sustainability-of-the/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/model-experiments-intercomparisons-and-data-evaluation-are-needed-to-quantify-and-help-with-management-decisions-and-ultimately-to-provide-scientific-knowledge-to-improve-the-sustainability-of-the/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:36:07 +0000 J.morais http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=2069 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/model-experiments-intercomparisons-and-data-evaluation-are-needed-to-quantify-and-help-with-management-decisions-and-ultimately-to-provide-scientific-knowledge-to-improve-the-sustainability-of-the/feed/ 0 Why, considering the meaning of humans (A), also the integrity of the Earth system (B), the results and its use of ESR (C) and the lessons learned in development(D), we are not getting the appropriate global, continental and national sustainable well-being? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/why-are-we-not-getting-the-appropriate-global-sustainable-wellbeing/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/why-are-we-not-getting-the-appropriate-global-sustainable-wellbeing/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:31:44 +0000 adjuto http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=2132 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/why-are-we-not-getting-the-appropriate-global-sustainable-wellbeing/feed/ 0 Can the biotic component of ecosystems make a difference in the ways that global change impacts wellbeing, and in the way we mitigate these impacts? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/can-biotic-component-of-ecosystems-make-a-difference-in-ways-global-change-impacts-wellbeing/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/can-biotic-component-of-ecosystems-make-a-difference-in-ways-global-change-impacts-wellbeing/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:30:09 +0000 sandradiaz http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=2141 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/can-biotic-component-of-ecosystems-make-a-difference-in-ways-global-change-impacts-wellbeing/feed/ 0 How do we quantify the coupling of the carbon, water and energy cycles at the surface, in the boundary layer and in atmospheric vertical transports? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/quantify-coupling-of-carbon-water-and-energy-cycles/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/quantify-coupling-of-carbon-water-and-energy-cycles/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:27:32 +0000 akbetts http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1145 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/quantify-coupling-of-carbon-water-and-energy-cycles/feed/ 0 Are the world’s ecosystems in imminent danger of destruction due to the rate of temperature increase? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/are-the-worlds-ecosystems-in-imminent-danger-of-destruction-due-to-the-rate-of-temperature-increase/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/are-the-worlds-ecosystems-in-imminent-danger-of-destruction-due-to-the-rate-of-temperature-increase/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:24:45 +0000 dobermanmacleod http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1323 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/are-the-worlds-ecosystems-in-imminent-danger-of-destruction-due-to-the-rate-of-temperature-increase/feed/ 1 How much biodiversity exists and how does its change or loss affect the system as a whole, and how modern methods of scientific investigations on biodiversity (including Artificial Intelligence) can help in solving this problem? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/how-much-biodiversity-exists-and-how-does-its-change-or-loss-affect-the-system/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/how-much-biodiversity-exists-and-how-does-its-change-or-loss-affect-the-system/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:22:50 +0000 Yelena Gambarova http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1329 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/how-much-biodiversity-exists-and-how-does-its-change-or-loss-affect-the-system/feed/ 0 Given the predominant theme:”to take action against global environmental change”, and the fact that environmental change is an ongoing process with long term consequences, what is being done in terms of research to find solutions leading to adaptation as well as mitigation of the effects on the earth and humanity to these changes? http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/what-is-being-done-in-terms-of-research-to-allow-adaptation/ http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/what-is-being-done-in-terms-of-research-to-allow-adaptation/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:20:56 +0000 phylos http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1435 http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/what-is-being-done-in-terms-of-research-to-allow-adaptation/feed/ 0