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Figure 2. Conceptual framework for the Land project
ing a focus on the terrestrial-aquatic carbon
cycles.
• Societal impacts of changes in disturbance
and management regimes (e.g., associated
with fi re, pest, or diseases) on the
human-environmental system and the provision
of ecosystem goods and services.
• The impact of changes in biodiversity on
the maintenance of ecosystem goods and
services.
• The vulnerability of specifi c human-environmental
systems (e.g., mountains, water
basins, arid lands) due to multiple stresses
on key social and natural resources.
• The impact of human activities in modifying
the land use/cover pattern and human-environmental
interactions along the urbanrural
gradient.
These questions provide guidance to the many communities
that contribute to this effort. We invite
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the social science community, the agroecological
community, the ecosystem ecology community, the
atmospheric and climate science community, the biodiversity
community and others who study related
issues to join us and contribute to answering the
questions posed in the Land Project and advancing
the state-of-knowledge within Land Change Science.
We also invite these communities of scientists to
attend the First Open Science Meeting of the
Land Project that will take place in Morelia, Mexico
between 1-5 December 2003. A one-day workshop
will take place 1 December which will allow the
GCTE, LUCC and IHDP communities as well as
others, to organise and begin to specify the activities
to be undertaken as the project moves forward in
2004. Details are available at the GCTE webpage via
the IGBP webpage.
Emilio F. Moran
Dept. of Anthropology,
Indiana University
Indiana, USA
E-mail: moran@indiana.edu