Eric Galbraith
Climate change, Human-earth modelling, Ecology and biogeochemistry聽
Humans are an integral part of the Earth system, and are dramatically modifying both the planetary surface and the organisms that live聽upon it. Yet, research on humans is聽typically carried out in isolation from聽research on the Earth system, making it hard to understand how to simultaneously achieve聽both human and non-human goals. The Integrated Earth System Dynamics laboratory targets this disciplinary divide, studying聽global聽humanity聽and its intimate coupling with the non-human Earth聽as a unified system. We borrow tools聽from biogeochemistry, theoretical ecology and complexity science, and join them with insights from anthropology, sociology, economics and medicine, in the hope of better figuring out what the heck is going on.
Galbraith, E. D., Carozza, D. A., & Bianchi, D. (2017). A coupled human-Earth model perspective on long-term trends in the global marine fishery.聽Nature communications,听8(1), 1-7.
Barrington-Leigh, C., & Galbraith, E. (2019). Feasible future global scenarios for human life evaluations.聽Nature communications,听10(1), 1-8.
Galbraith, Eric D. Earth system economics: a biophysical approach to the human component of the Earth system.聽Earth System Dynamics聽12, no. 2 (2021): 671-687.
Zhu, Dan, Eric D. Galbraith, Victoria Reyes-Garc铆a, and Philippe Ciais. Global hunter-gatherer population densities constrained by influence of seasonality on diet composition.聽Nature ecology & evolution聽5, no. 11 (2021): 1536-1545.
Hatton, I. A., Heneghan, R. F, Bar-On, Y. M. and Galbraith, E. D. (2021). The global ocean size spectrum from bacteria to whales. Science Advances 7(46).