One clear implication of the Anthropocene paradigm is that if the world around us is co-constituted by physical and social processes, the way we study it must be similarly eco-social. It is no longer possible (if it ever was) to understand the environment through traditional physical or human geography approaches. To satisfactorily explain what is happening at our field sites, we need to take an interdisciplinary approach -- which often requires reconciling data sources at disparate geographical and/or chronological scales. Integrating these sources in practice can be complicated, not least given disciplinary distinctions in how scale is both conceptualized and operationalized.
These sessions will begin with a reading seminar focused on texts circulated in advance, followed by a panel on methodological approaches used to engage with and work through these complexities. The discussion will focus, for example, on efforts to balance global or national policy discourses with localized policy impacts; how historical datasets might be used to inform contemporary environmental monitoring; and what to do do when different scales of data contradict each other.. Readings and panelists come from fields such as Critical Physical Geography, Historical Geography, and Land Cover Science.
Type | Details | Minutes |
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Introduction | Lisa Kelley University of Hawaii - Manoa | 10 |
Panelist | Rebecca Lave Indiana University | 10 |
Discussant | John Baeten Indiana University | 10 |
Discussant | Heidi Hausermann Colorado State University | 10 |
Discussant | Robert Wilson Syracuse University | 10 |
Discussant | Rinku Roy Chowdhury Clark University | 10 |
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