LCSA Board Meeting Minutes - 2017-11-02

LCSA Board Meeting Minutes - 2017-11-02

In Attendance:

• Thomas Gloria
• Cassandra Thiel
• Yuan Yao

To Do:

• Tom will write a draft proposal for Reid (using discussion points below and whatever input you want to add!)
• Next meeting – December 7.

From Last Time:

Who will be attending GRC?

• Stephan yes
• Cassie maybe
• Tom no
• Matt yes (hopefully)
• Paulina yes (hopefully)
• Yuan yes (hopefully)
• Wenjie yes (hopefully)

Notes:

Conversation with Reid Lifset – Editor-in-chief of ISIE

• Wants us to move forward on this topic
• Having the specific content and moving forward on that topic helps
• A little different than our typical domain (food, social) is also helpful (and a challenge)

Brainstorm around aspects for us to cover in our food special issue (slide from Tom on SDG targets around hunger)

• Agriculture, economics, socio-economics – topics that may be a challenge for us to contribute to
• Call for papers need to have multi-disciplinary approach (to create manuscripts for the journal)
  • Quantitative science perspective for multi-disciplinary groups
• What would the manuscript look like?
  • Taxonomy for field itself, areas of protection we need to understand
    • Working with others – addressing our biases, vocabulary, how different fields function
  • Development of impact assessment around hunger alleviation?
    • Impact modeling for cheaper/larger quantities of food, and agricultural impacts?
    • Maybe some case studies?
  • Process/inventory side – which processes could you reference (functional units) for hunger alleviation
    • Development/growth of humans (stunted growth) – example of functional unit or impact category
    • What is the function of food?
    • Actual human impact (direct impacts) and human activities
  • What it means to have an impact on human health
    • We, as a field, tend to lack that human health impact; the categories have high uncertainties and many don’t include them at all
    • With an increase focus on human health in other fields, this could make us fall behind
    • Combined assessment – new ideas to evaluate social impact; looking at other disciplines’ assessments of social impact, how do we work with them?
  • End scenario – “output” – Cultural reaction to increased child survival and increased longevity (change in dynamic of resources, education, etc.)
    • Human behavior
    • Obesity & diabetes
      • Transition from developing to developed issues