Policy interactions in human-landscape systems

This research paper discusses the need for interdisciplinary integration across natural and social sciences to understand human-landscape systems, specifically examining how environmental policy research contributes to four integrative themes: thresholds and tipping points, spatial scales and boundaries, feedback loops, and time scales and lags.

• There is a recognized interdependence between human systems and hydrogeomorphological and ecological systems, creating an urgent need for interdisciplinary integration to build theories that can predict and respond to rapidly changing human-landscape systems.
• The paper utilizes an NSF-sponsored interdisciplinary workshop to describe how environmental policy research informs four specific integrative themes: feedback loops, time scales and lags, spatial scales and boundaries, and thresholds and tipping points.
• Environmental policy research is characterized as a heterogeneous body of literature with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches regarding ideas, processes, actors, and institutions.

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} }