Too often the reasons we disagree about what to do about climate change are framed in this way, as disputes about the truth claims of some aspect of biogeophysical science – is the world warming; are greenhouse gases responsible; will this ice-sheet collapse? ❋ Unknown (2009)
The ever-changing character of biogeophysical, environmental, institutional, economic, and political processes that influence human – environment systems requires that vulnerability be treated as a process [31]. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The 12 months since 17 November 2009 have shown brutally that the social, political and cultural dynamics at work around the idea of climate change are more volatile than the slowly changing and causally entangled climate dynamics of the Earth's biogeophysical systems. ❋ Mike Hulme (2010)
In this spirit, Figure 2.3 (a) shows how the socioeconomic subsystem or “anthroposphere” (solid rectangle) has always been embedded within a broader biogeophysical system or “biogeosphere” (large oval). ❋ Unknown (2009)
The broken line in Figure 2.3 (a) symbolically shows that in many cases, the scale of human activity in the anthroposphere has increased to the point where it is now impinging on the underlying biogeophysical system (Chapter 3). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Impacts on human society (i.e., beliefs, values, knowledge and activities), and on the biogeophysical environment (i.e., both living and non-living resources), are often interlinked via second and higher order paths, requiring integrated application of SA and EA. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In each case, a holistic environmental analysis would seek to study an integrated biogeophysical system in its entirety. ❋ Unknown (2007)
However, global sustainability issues like climate change were mainly framed by natural scientists as problems involving biogeophysical systems, largely divorced from their social context [1]. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He has spent many years working in the West Indies on a variety of projects and has worked closely with the government of Haiti in establishing a plan for the National Parks of Haiti and in completing a biogeophysical inventory of the natural resources of Hispaniola. ❋ Unknown (1991)
Paul Fisher, a Dot Earth reader from New Jersey who recently expressed cogent concerns here about dealing with the risks in a complex engineered system - nuclear power plants - has offered similar observations about a complex biogeophysical system in a comment on my post on Arctic climate change, past and future. ❋ By ANDREW C. REVKIN (2011)
The policy debate is far uglier, and contains even less certainty than the biogeophysical science of climate, because of the human element and the reality that the unknown unknowns include our next steps as an innovative, reactive, unpredictable species. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Coastal deltas are the by-product of a remarkable biogeophysical balancing act. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Drought in the Sahel: A biogeophysical feedback mechanism." ❋ Unknown (2009)
The existing policy discussion in important forums, such as the IPCC and Stern reports (see this Vox column), is largely based on the uncertainty about the biogeophysical and biogeochemical systems, as are analyses such as that of Wigley and Raper (2001). ❋ Unknown (2008)
evidence for the Anthropocene, meaning that the human species has become a "globally potent biogeophysical force, capable of leaving a durable imprint in the geological record." ❋ Unknown (2011)
Vox column), is largely based on the uncertainty about the biogeophysical and biogeochemical systems, as are analyses such as that of Wigley and Raper (2001). ❋ Unknown (2008)
