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Noel Aloysius
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H036: Coupled Human-Natural Systems Modeling to Evaluate Reliability, Resiliency and Sustainability of Ecosystem Services
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Session Description:
Globally, population growth and increasing demand for food and services necessitate an increasingly productive agricultural sector, and compel the expansion of human interference into natural areas. Increasingly, these managed areas pose risks to public health, impair water quality and other valued ecosystem services. Overexploitation of water resources for food production limit availability and accessibility of water for other valued ecosystem services. However, holistic approaches that evaluate the full range of benefits and tradeoffs among many ecosystems services are still lacking. Of particular interest to regulatory and management agencies is the understanding of feedbacks, spatial and temporal dependencies, legacy effects, time lags and management. In this session, we solicit contributions that elucidate the complex interactions of constituent subsystems, and their integration through coupled models capable of representing human decisions (e.g. economic, cultural and social) and natural (e.g. biological, climatic and hydrologic) subsystems.
Primary Convener: Noel R Aloysius, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Conveners: Michele L Reba, USDA, ARS, Delta Water Management Research Unit, Jonesboro, AR, United States, Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Niroj Aryal, USDA, State University, AR, United States
Cross-Listed:
- B - Biogeosciences
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Thanks,--
Noel R. Aloysius
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
College of Food, Agricultural & Environmental Sciences | Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
590 Woody Hayes Drive, Columbus, OH 43210
College of Arts and Sciences | Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, 1314 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 43212