Impacts of Global Change

The natural world on which human society relies is rapidly changing. Socioeconomic forces alone are re- shaping our relationship to the environment, and changing climate adds many further stressors. We focus on advancing the understanding of these changes, their interactions, and how human society may be affected. We address areas including global agricultural productivity and adaptive capacity; food security and land-use change; freshwater demand, availability and quality; global forest carbon and emissions; and population dynamics and coastal infrastructure.