Mapping Transitions and Alterations in Complex Environments

The conscious and sustainable designing of environments, independently of the spatiotemporal scale of analysis, requires the characterization and mapping of multiple geo-environmental factors. This entails the need to reconstruct the transitions and alterations undergone by environments, with a special focus on the interactions between geosphere, anthroposphere and biosphere. This kind of holistic mapping of environmental dynamics is challenging and requires multidisciplinary approaches capable of balancing technology and geo-computational methodologies, supported by a wide range of expert skills across fields ranging from the natural sciences to engineering, the historical and social sciences, and the humanities.