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The joint conference “Tough Choices – Land Under a changing climate” focuses on future land use strategies being in conflict with food and fiber production, ecosystem services, human settlement and production of renewable energies.This conflict results of (from) the limited global land resources and the influence of the climate change which impacts vary strongly across regions.
However, to analyse the trade offs of land-use alternatives for mitigation and adaptation, to achieve more beneficial allocation decisions and to use land resources for these purposes in more sustainable ways we need both the scientific basis and the proper management tools. This multi-objective research task goes far beyond the scope of a single discipline involved in global change research.
So, new approaches of integrated science beyond disciplinary boundaries covering social, economic and natural science are needed to approach this complex field of research. There are strong research communities already working on climate change and its impacts both in the US and Germany. Nevertheless perceptions, backgrounds and approaches differ on the two sides of the Atlantic. Thus, it is the aim of the German-US conference to initiate the discussion, to identify where we stand, and to look for common research goals. |
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