Policy interactions in human-landscape systems

The paper argues for greater interdisciplinary integration between natural and social sciences to understand rapidly changing human-landscape systems. It specifically examines how environmental policy research aligns with four key themes: thresholds and tipping points, spatial scales and boundaries, feedback loops, and time scales and lags, aiming to identify research complementarities for future collaborative work.

• There is a recognized need for interdisciplinary integration across natural and social sciences to develop the conceptual frameworks, methods, and tools required to predict and respond to the interdependence of human, ecological, and hydrogeomorphological systems.
• Environmental policy research, characterized by diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to institutions and actors, contributes to four specific integrative themes: thresholds and tipping points, spatial scales and boundaries, feedback loops, and time scales and lags.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2025). Policy interactions in human-landscape systems. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/policy-interactions-in-human-landscape-systems/

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Policy interactions in human-landscape systems. 2025. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/policy-interactions-in-human-landscape-systems/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2025policy, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Policy interactions in human-landscape systems}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/policy-interactions-in-human-landscape-systems/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }