Global change impacts. Challenge 1: Past Global Changes: A context to the anthropocene

García M.B, Jordano, P. (2021). Global change impacts. Challenge 1: Past Global Changes: A context to the anthropocene. CSIC Scientific Challenges: Towards 2030. 174 pp.

The environmental sustainability of the Earth system is at risk, and so do human welfare because of our dependency on it. Here we present challenges dealing with the understanding of how drivers of global change work, and how to minimize their effects on natural and human managed systems, with the aid of new concepts and edge-cutting technology. Their achievement should allow us to detect, understand, forecast and mitigate global change impacts related to climate change, the biodiversity crisis, polar regions, and managed ecosystems, and to improve the health of our planet in the coming decades.