Transcript Synthesis and Connections: Directions in the Intellectual

Synthesis and Connections:
Directions in the Intellectual
Development of HARC
Maribeth Murray, UAF,
Henry Huntington, Huntington Consulting,
Craig Nicholson,UM,
Dan Ferguson, ARCUS
J. Benjamin Fitzhugh, UW
Bruce Forbes, UL
S. Craig Gerlach, UAF
Lawrence Hamilton, UNH,
Barbara Moorehouse, IPE, UA
Astrid Ogilvie, INSTAR,
and Alexey Voinov, UV
• Human Dimensions of
the Arctic System
(HARC)
• Arctic System
Science Program
(ARCSS)
• HARC prospectus
www.arcus.org/harc
Examples of HARC Research
• Interactions of environmental and social
change
• Transitions in fishing and farming
economies
• Perceptions of hazard and risk associated
with environmental change
HARC Research Focus
• Changes in human-environment
relationships
• Change through interaction rather than
change in a single component
HARC Products
• HARC synthesis paper
• Dedicated issue of Arctic
• 2004 Science workshop – “ Patterns,
Connections, and Methods in
Human/Environment Interactions Research
Human Dimensions Research
HARC Goals
• Expand the network of HD researchers
• Strengthen societal relevance of ARCSS
research
• Advance the intellectual basis of HARC
science
• Engage the arctic HD community in the
broader ARCSS synthesis efforts
• Integrate the HD community into ARCSS
Main Tasks for HARC
• Continuing to build the HARC community’s
research capacity
• Coordinating HARC synthesis and
publications
• Refining and communicating the HARC
research visions to a broad constituency
• Active involvement in ARCSS Program
planning and development
HARC Core Office Structure
• Maribeth Murray, Director, HARC
Core Office, UAF Center for Global
Change [email protected]
• Steering Committee
Planned Activities
• 21-23 June 2005 Human Security and Climate
Change – International Workshop
• October 2005 IHDP Open Meeting on the
HD of Global Environmental Change
• 2006 American Association for the
Advancement of Science Annual Meeting
• HARC workshops
Tangible Products
• Publications forthcoming
– HARC brochure
– Dedicated issue of Arctic
– Forthcoming synthesis paper
• Planned publications under the new core office
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IHDP symposium papers
AAAS symposium papers
Synthesis papers
Public communications
Expanded web presence
Synthesis Paper
• Human agency and climate change
• Looking beyond CO2 as a driver
• Human potential for amplification of
impacts and effects
• Quantitative study of human influences
HARC Long Term Goals
• Integrate HARC research into the
Arctic System Science plan and
research agenda
• HD research becomes a fundamental
component of the Arctic System
Science program
Acknowledgments
• 100+ Participants in the 2004 HARC Science
Workshops, Seattle
• Participants in the 2004 ARCSS Synthesis
Retreat and especially: Michelle Boyle, Jonathan
Overpeck, Rommel Zulueta, Gwenn Flowers,
John Weatherly, Larry Hinzman, Andrea Lloyd,
and Clara Deser
• National Science Foundation
• ARCSS Steering Committee
• ARCUS
• UAF Center for Global Change