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The past two decades have brought a fundamental change in the world view of the sciences of the Earth. We have become aware that global change cuts across all components of the Earth System: solid earth, biosphere, atmosphere and oceans.
The Group ESS CC: Earth System Science and Climate Change from Wageningen UR, has its mission to advance our understanding of the Earth and Climate System as a complex system, with specific inclusion of the anthropogenic and human components. Properties and processes of the components of the Earth System, such as carbon or water cycles in the terrestrial and atmospheric compartments, are investigated as integral parts of the system, focusing on their interactions and feedbacks.
The Team Earth System Science (ESS) and Climate Change (CC) is a functional merger of the chair group Earth System Sciences in the department of Environmental Sciences of Wageningen University and the team Land Atmosphere Interactions of Alterra in 2006. As such we invest in education at BSc, MSc and PhD levels, but also in competitive contract research on both fundamental and more policy oriented questions.
The team addresses the sciences of the Earth from a holistic perspective. Properties and processes of components of the Earth system, such as carbon or water cycles in the land and atmospheric compartments, are under investigation as integral parts of a system, focusing on their interactions and feedbacks. Obviously, in the era of Global Change, humanity is also a part of the Earth System. Therefore we also host social scientific research. |