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	<title>Earth System Visioning &#187; human dimension</title>
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		<title>How can we get past the debates between natural and anthropogenic causes of global changes, and shift our attention towards reducing and dealing with the impacts of these changes?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/07/how-to-minimize-the-natural-vs-athropogenic-controversy-on-global-changeswarming-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edmarone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How to minimize the natural vs anthropogenic controversy on global changes/warming issues? It seems that there is no more scientific doubts that climate changes are moving the earth system to a warmer period. It seems that the actual controversy on how much is natural and how much is human related is a worthless discussion in many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can the human dimensions of the Earth system be appropriately factored into our understanding of the Earth system, including questions of meaning, value, interpretation, and identity?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/07/how-can-the-human-dimensions-of-earth-system-be-appropriately-factored-in/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/07/how-can-the-human-dimensions-of-earth-system-be-appropriately-factored-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clarkamiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put simply, understanding the biogeophysics of the Earth system is incomplete without understanding the changes humans bring to bear within it and why humans choose to make those changes. This incompleteness impacts our ability to explain why changes in the Earth system happen as well as to design appropriate policy responses to those changes.
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		<title>How can we improve the decision processes that affect the ecosystem services for human well being?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/improve-decision-processes-affecting-ecosystem-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/improve-decision-processes-affecting-ecosystem-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Castanares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interdisciplinary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decisions & choices]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Day by day it is becoming more evident what has been obvious: if we dont answer this question it will not matter how much more we learn about the workings of the earth system
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		<title>What changes in policies (global to local) and human behavior will most strongly reduce human pressures on the planet&#8217;s life support systems, and how can the scientific community influence their implementation?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/changes-in-policies-human-behavior-reduce-human-pressures-on-planets-life-support-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/changes-in-policies-human-behavior-reduce-human-pressures-on-planets-life-support-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fschapin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biosphere]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Humanity has perhaps a couple of decades to radically reshape the relationship between society and the biosphere. This requires research on human perceptions and motivations as well as communications between scientists and society. Very little global change research is focused on these critical issues which will determine whether more basic research on global change will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do we develop coupled climate-social models that take human society into account?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/develop-coupled-climate-social-models-that-take-human-society-into-account/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/develop-coupled-climate-social-models-that-take-human-society-into-account/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>awh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Earth System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social-Ecological Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate model]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=2307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We need to establish a robust relationship between human society and climate/exploitation of nature. Otherwise the underlying pressure for growth will lead undesirable situations.
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		<title>How can we get the public to understand how to make BIG changes in carbon dioxide emissions?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/07/get-the-public-to-understand-how-to-make-big-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/07/get-the-public-to-understand-how-to-make-big-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Geballe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Individuals are trying to do &#8220;their part&#8221; but we need BIG solutions: e.g. policy changes that force large populations to behave &#8220;better&#8221;.
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		<title>How will human and natural systems co-evolve into the next 50 years?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/human-and-natural-systems-co-evolve-next-50-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/human-and-natural-systems-co-evolve-next-50-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jfshogren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feedbacks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The interaction between natural and human systems is a two-way street; the impacts are jointly determined by what happens in both systems and the feedback loops that lead to adaptations and change.  Understanding better how humans and environmental systems co-evolve&#8211;the likely direction and trends&#8211;is vital for allocating scarce resources to protect the earth. 
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		<title>How should the human community reorganize its activities towards a healthy relationship with Earth?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/how-should-human-community-reorganize-activities-towards-healthy-relationship-with-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/how-should-human-community-reorganize-activities-towards-healthy-relationship-with-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>surfer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anthropogenic factors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=1970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The focus of Earth System Research (ESR) involves, according to Reid et al. (2009), the interaction between land, atmosphere, water, ice, biosphere, societies, technologies and economies. Eventually ESR should lead to the prediction of global environmental changes.
Amongst these eight sectors of the system, those capable of some control by the human community are ‘societies’, ‘technologies’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is life ? (question raised formerly by Schrödinger)  When did it start ? What is the difference between a living organism and a non alive organism ? Description of the different species of the ecosystem.</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/what-is-life-question-raised-formerly-by-schrodinger-when-did-it-start-what-is-the-difference-between-a-living-organism-and-a-non-alive-organism-description-of-the-different-sepcies-of-the-ec/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/what-is-life-question-raised-formerly-by-schrodinger-when-did-it-start-what-is-the-difference-between-a-living-organism-and-a-non-alive-organism-description-of-the-different-sepcies-of-the-ec/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gaudin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[disequilibrium]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icsu-visioning.org/?p=2040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[empathy to all forms of life is absolutely necessary to cope with the present disequilibrium between human species and the planet ecosystem, which diversity is declining as a result of human unconsciousness.
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