Biological Sciences for the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainable Development in an Era of Global Change

Cracraft, Joel ; O' ; Grady, Richard

American Institute of Biological Sciences

关键词: 60 Applied Life Sciences;    Capacity;    Sustainable Development;    Biology;    Maintenance;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1032494
RP-ID  :  DOE/ER/64425
RP-ID  :  FG02-07ER64425
RP-ID  :  1032494

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The symposium was held 10-12 May, 2007 at the Capitol Hilton Hotel in Washington, D. C. The 30 talks explored how some of today's key biological research developments (such as biocomplexity and complex systems analysis, bioinformatics and computational biology, the expansion of molecular and genomics research, and the emergence of other comprehensive or system wide analyses, such as proteomics) contribute to sustainability science. The symposium therefore emphasized the challenges facing agriculture, human health, sustainable energy, and the maintenance of ecosystems and their services, so as to provide a focus and a suite of examples of the enormous potential contributions arising from these new developments in the biological sciences. This symposium was the first to provide a venue for exploring how the ongoing advances in the biological sciences together with new approaches for improving knowledge integration and institutional science capacity address key global challenges to sustainability. The speakers presented new research findings, and identified new approaches and needs in biological research that can be expected to have substantial impacts on sustainability science.