The Longer-Term Impacts of Efficient Technology as a Solution to Environmental Externalities: Behavioral Scientists versus Engineers and Environmental Scientists

11:00 a.m. ET
Paul Ferraro

Resource-conserving technologies provide the same level of services as status-quo technologies, but with fewer inputs. Examples include energy-efficient appliances, fuel-efficient vehicles and cook-stoves, water-efficient appliances and fixtures, and input-efficient (precision) agriculture and

Environmental Policy Immersion Program

02:00pm - 10:00pm

 

Environmental Policy Immersion Program

SESYNC is hosting a 3-day Environmental Policy Immersion Program for post-doctoral researchers in fields pertinent to socio-environmental research.  The program includes a basic grounding in public policy issues, institutions, and approaches to collaboration

Combined Effects of Local Neighborhood and Regional Climate Suitability Explained Tree Performance in Temperate and Tropical Forests

11:00 a.m. ET

Identifying the mechanisms that shape natural communities is a major challenge in community ecology. Climatic conditions and local neighborhoods that have been described as important filters selecting a subset of species with traits fit for a site, thereby driving community assembly and dynamics

Past is Prologue?: Examining the Long-Term History and Legacies of Environmental Injustice in the City of Baltimore and Its Implications for a More Sustainable and Resilient City

11:00 a.m. ET

Legacies of past environmental injustices can leave an imprint on the present and constrain pathways for the future. Using nearly 20 years of social and environmental justice research from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a long-term social ecological research project, we examine the relationships

Climate and Social Vulnerability: Analytics of Cause and Responsibility

11:00 a.m. ET
Jesse Ribot

Adaptation is forward looking. But we need to look back at the causes of fragility to move toward security. Causal analysis of vulnerability aims to identify the roots of crises so that transformative solutions might be found. Yet, root-cause analysis is absent from most climate-response assessments

Biodiversity and Its Histories: On the Option Value of Biodiversity

11:00 a.m. ET
Dan Faith

The history of the term “biodiversity” (since 1985) hardly does justice to the earlier discussions of “biotic diversity” that refer to living variation and its values. The pre-history of biodiversity (the history of the term before it was invented) documents strong links to option value: valuing the

Mobile Tools to Inform Agent-Based Models

11:00 a.m. ET
Andrew Bell

Agent-based models (ABMs) are powerful tools for the study of complex systems, particularly when outcomes of interest at the system level (e.g., forest cover, traffic jams, or presidents) emerge from the decisions of individuals interacting with each other and their environment (e.g., farmers

A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and America’s Colonial Beginnings

11:00 a.m. ET
Sam White

The first European explorers and settlers in North America came woefully unprepared for the novel environments and climates they encountered in the New World. Popular understanding equated climates with latitudes and vastly underestimated the stronger continental seasons that Spanish, English, and