The ongoing and rapid change of the Earth system is attributable to pressures of human societies including the emission of greenhouse gases or the degradation of ecosystems. In response, research activities in the Earth, environmental and social sciences have expanded in the past decades, improving our understanding of the Earth system’s and subsequent societal responses to the anthropogenic pressures.
However, the interplay of multiple biogeophysical and societal processes requires a deeper integration of the different research strands, ideally combined with a focus on sustainability transformations. This session will reflect on critical gaps in current research on the human
footprint on the Earth system, and explore the potentials of a more explicit integrative and transformative research on Earth and societies. We invite contributions that the geoscientific community can make to such a research agenda, preferably together with other disciplines,
and with a large-scale (global) perspective.
The session's ID is 135 and is co-convened by: Zeeden, Christian*¹; Gerten, Dieter ²; Vinnepand, Mathias ³
1: LIAG-Institut für Angewandte Geophysik; 2: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); 3: Universität Freiburg
More details on the event and abstract submission can be found under the link:
https://geominbochum2026.de/index.html