News and Events
2010 CHANS-Net Event
The International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems
(CHANS-Net), with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is pleased to announce a series of CHANS events being organized in conjunction with the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Current plans would have CHANS-Net activities focused on the first three full days of the AAG Meeting (April 14-16), but of course participants would be welcome to remain for as much of the remainder of the AAG meeting as they desire.
NSF considers these events to be a gathering that would fulfill a requirement of CNH awards for participation of at least one senior member of each funded team in a periodic meeting of awardees. In addition to presentations and a workshop within the AAG meeting, there will be opportunities for discussion and a small number of select presentations on CHANS research at the NSF.
Those who are not supported by the NSF-CNH Program are also welcome to participate in the events.
The focus of the 2010 activities will be to synthesize across CHANS research projects and identify special opportunities for CHANS research over the next 5 to 10 years as well as recommendations regarding ways that the research community can best pursue those opportunities. The presentation of project findings will be complemented by a workshop designed to produce cross-project syntheses suitable for publication.
The CHANS Fellows Program of CHANS-Net will provide financial support for the participation of approximately 10 junior scholars (e.g., graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and junior faculty) in these activities. There will be opportunities for informal interactions among CHANS project investigators and among junior scholars and senior colleagues.
We hope you will be able to join us. Calendar of CHANS-Net Events
Please note: Abstracts are no longer being accepted, as the deadline for submission was October 20, 2009.
If you are interested in organizing or helping to organize a session, please contact us at CHANS-Net.
Please also share this information with other potentially interested individuals. Thanks.
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Lin Ostrom Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics
Congratulations to Lin Ostrom, advisory board member of CHANS-Net, who has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, together with Oliver Williamson at University of California (Berkeley). Lin is recognized “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.” According to the Nobel Prize Committee, “Elinor Ostrom has challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized. Based on numerous studies of user-managed fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes, and groundwater basins, Ostrom concludes that the outcomes are, more often than not, better than predicted by standard theories. She observes that resource users frequently develop sophisticated mechanisms for decision-making and rule enforcement to handle conflicts of interest, and she characterizes the rules that promote successful outcomes.” More information can be found at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2009/.
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Special Issue
Special Issue of Ecology and Society
"The Influence of Human Demography and Agriculture on Natural Systems in the Neotropics"
[published: Dec 2008]
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2009 CHANS-Net Kick-Off Event
We organized several exciting CHANS activities at the
2009 conference of the
US-IALE (US Regional Association, International Association for Landscape Ecology) that was held April 12-16, 2009 in Snowbird, Utah.
We hosted a special symposium on "Complexity in Human-Nature Interactions Across Landscapes" Representatives of seventeen CHANS projects presented new and exciting results.
Symposium Speakers
The symposium was followed by a companion workshop on “Challenges and Opportunities in Research on Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems" where participants engaged in in-depth discussions of the symposium presentations and began synthesizing findings across sites.
Our Symposium Speakers and CHANS Fellows interacted informally at a CHANS Roundtable lunch and at the NASA-MSU/CHANS banquet. These were times for junior scholars to interact with one another, with NASA-MSU awardees, and with more senior colleagues, in order to build the CHANS community.
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Global Land Project Open Science Meeting 2010 - Land Systems, Global Change and Sustainability
The aim of the GLP 2010 meeting is to bring together large parts of the international research community working on land change issues, showcase the width and scope of ongoing research, help build a community in this highly interdisciplinary field, inspire new research and facilitate review, theory building and extrapolation.
Date: October 17-19, 2010
Venue: Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 30, 2010
For more details, please see: www.glp2010.org
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