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BG8.3 | Deciphering socio-ecosystem interactions and transitions with diverse Earth Observations
EDI
Deciphering socio-ecosystem interactions and transitions with diverse Earth Observations
Convener: Wantong LiECSECS | Co-conveners: Markus Reichstein, Gregory Duveiller, Miguel Mahecha, Shuai Wang
The Earth system has been transformed by human activities at an accelerated rate since the second half of the 20th century. Socio-economic growth and technological development have come at the cost of long-term climate change and more frequent and intense climate extremes. As a result, global warming and episodes of drought and flooding have major impacts on terrestrial vegetation, water and socio-economic functions and services. Socio-ecosystem changes can lead to both positive and negative climate feedbacks and societal consequences, and socio-ecosystem interactions and causal relationships need to be better understood.

In this session, we would like to synthesise studies using Earth observation and statistical data from regional to national scales using data-driven approaches (e.g. traditional statistics, machine learning) to better address the following questions (1) What are the key ecosystem functions or services (vegetation productivity, green or blue water fluxes, nutrients, etc.) that are most important for socio-economic development? (2) Which socio-economic sectors (finance, transport, gender equality, freshwater consumption, etc.) are highly sensitive to ecosystem changes and at which spatio-temporal scales? (3) Are there (delayed) effects of societal shocks, extremes or pandemics on ecosystem sustainability? (4) What are the state-of-the-art data-driven approaches to study socio-ecosystem interactions and to assess systematic states and transitions such as resilience, vulnerability, and sustainable development goals? (5) Are there improvements in ecosystem Earth observations or socio-economic data that can open up new topics or reveal fundamental questions in socio-ecosystem interactions? We encourage early career and experienced scientists working in social, ecological, Earth system science, or multidisciplinary fields to submit to this session.