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                "effects of climate change on humans",
                "deforestation in Peru",
                "deforestation in Paraguay",
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                "effects of demographic and economic growth on the environment",
                "Deforestation in Costa Rica",
                "deforestation in Madagascar",
                "Holocene extinction",
                "Deforestation in Argentina",
                "Human impact on river systems",
                "climate change and human mobility",
                "Climate change and children",
                "Effects of climate change on the water cycle",
                "heat stress as a consequence of climate change in Germany",
                "Effects of climate change on biomes",
                "effect of climate change on biodiversity",
                "effects of climate change on sport",
                "effects of climate change on wine production",
                "effects of climate change on small island countries",
                "effects of climate change on agriculture",
                "economic impacts of climate change",
                "effects of climate change on oceans",
                "climate change in Sri Lanka",
                "Long-term effects of global warming",
                "impact of climate change on coffee production",
                "abrupt climate change",
                "effects of climate change on marine mammals"
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                "name": "human impact on the environment",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain human impact on the environment as a field, relay assessments and data from authoritative bodies with attribution, identify kinds of impact and regional cases, describe responses and debates neutrally, and route to entries for specific impacts and regions.",
                "definition": "The changes to natural environments caused by human activity, including climate change from anthropogenic emissions, deforestation such as in Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia, pollution, biodiversity loss, land and water degradation and resource depletion, together with the effects of these changes on people; the topic is assessed by bodies such as the IPCC and IPBES, is the subject of international agreements, and is central to environmental policy and science.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a field of environmental change and its study.",
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                    "explain kinds of impact",
                    "relay assessments with attribution",
                    "identify regional cases",
                    "describe responses and debates"
                ],
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                    "Anthropogenic cause",
                    "Global and regional scales",
                    "Assessed by international bodies",
                    "Policy responses"
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                "appearance": "Not a visible object; seen in cleared forests, polluted waters, changed climates and altered landscapes.",
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                    "Environmental change caused by people",
                    "Climate, land, water, air and biodiversity impacts",
                    "Natural variability is not human impact; environmental effects on humans are the reverse relation"
                ],
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                    {
                        "quantity": "global warming since pre-industrial",
                        "typical_range": "about 1.1-1.3",
                        "unit": "degrees C",
                        "note": "per IPCC and WMO, recent years"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "annual forest loss",
                        "typical_range": "about 10 million",
                        "unit": "hectares",
                        "note": "FAO estimate"
                    }
                ],
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                    "climate change from anthropogenic emissions and its effects",
                    "deforestation including cases in Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia",
                    "pollution of air, water and soil",
                    "biodiversity loss",
                    "land degradation and desertification",
                    "resource depletion",
                    "effects of environmental change on humans"
                ],
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                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "environmental change",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "external risk",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is assessed by",
                        "target": "IPCC",
                        "why": "and IPBES"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is addressed by",
                        "target": "environmental policy",
                        "why": "and international agreements"
                    }
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                    "UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement",
                    "Convention on Biological Diversity",
                    "National environmental laws",
                    "Environmental impact assessment requirements"
                ],
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                    "Irreversible environmental damage",
                    "Presenting contested policy questions as settled",
                    "Unsourced or outdated figures",
                    "Confusing direction of cause and effect"
                ],
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                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
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                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What human impact covers.",
                        "rationale": "Definition.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "kinds",
                                "name": "Kinds",
                                "description": "Kinds of impact.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kinds-finding",
                                        "name": "Kinds",
                                        "description": "Kinds.",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "What kinds of human impact on the environment are recognised, and how are they assessed?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about human impact on the environment or environmental effects on humans?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "causes",
                                "name": "Causes",
                                "description": "Drivers.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "causes-finding",
                                        "name": "Causes",
                                        "description": "Causes.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What drivers such as energy use, agriculture and consumption underlie impacts, as assessments describe?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific impact?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "evidence",
                        "name": "Evidence",
                        "description": "Assessments and data.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "assessments",
                                "name": "Assessments",
                                "description": "Major assessments.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "assessments-finding",
                                        "name": "Assessments",
                                        "description": "Assessments.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What do IPCC, IPBES and other assessments conclude, with attribution and dates?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation attributed to assessments?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "data",
                                "name": "Data",
                                "description": "Data and indicators.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "data-finding",
                                        "name": "Data",
                                        "description": "Data.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What indicators track impacts, and what do the data show, with sources?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "regions",
                        "name": "Regions",
                        "description": "Regional cases.",
                        "rationale": "Sources.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "deforestation",
                                "name": "Deforestation",
                                "description": "Deforestation cases.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "deforestation-finding",
                                        "name": "Deforestation",
                                        "description": "Deforestation.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What do sources report about deforestation in Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia and other regions?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific region?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "effects",
                                "name": "Effects",
                                "description": "Effects on people.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "effects-finding",
                                        "name": "Effects",
                                        "description": "Effects.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do environmental changes affect human health, livelihoods and migration, with findings attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "respond",
                        "name": "Respond",
                        "description": "Responses and debate.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
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                                "id": "policy",
                                "name": "Policy",
                                "description": "Policy responses.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "policy-finding",
                                        "name": "Policy",
                                        "description": "Policy.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What international and national responses exist, and what debates surround them, with positions attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "history",
                                "name": "History",
                                "description": "History of the concept.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "history-finding",
                                        "name": "History",
                                        "description": "History.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did understanding of human environmental impact develop, from early conservation to the Anthropocene debate?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits environmental history?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should each kind of impact be a separate primary entry?",
                "How should assessment reports be linked and dated?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming regional cases and effects on humans; should they be split off?"
            ],
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                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
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            "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a human impact on the environment, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain human impact on the environment as a field, relay assessments and data from authoritative bodies with attribution, identify kinds of impact and regional cases, describe responses and debates neutrally, and route to entries for specific impacts and regions.",
            "characteristics": {
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                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "read and interpreted"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: effects of climate change on humans, deforestation in Peru, deforestation in Paraguay, anthropogenic emission, effects of climate change, Deforestation in Bolivia, effects of demographic and economic growth on the environment, Deforestation in Costa Rica, deforestation in Madagascar, Holocene extinction, Deforestation in Argentina, Human impact on river systems.",
                "29 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 40 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a human impact on the environment, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "read it and act on what it says"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [],
            "relatedModels": [
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                    "relation": "covers",
                    "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.",
                    "targets": [
                        "effects of climate change on humans",
                        "deforestation in Peru",
                        "deforestation in Paraguay",
                        "anthropogenic emission",
                        "effects of climate change",
                        "Deforestation in Bolivia",
                        "effects of demographic and economic growth on the environment",
                        "Deforestation in Costa Rica",
                        "deforestation in Madagascar",
                        "Holocene extinction",
                        "Deforestation in Argentina",
                        "Human impact on river systems"
                    ]
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            ],
            "standing": "Described in 40 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 29 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
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                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one human impact on the environment from another, and a human impact on the environment from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "naming-and-identifiers",
                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases",
                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
                                        "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                        "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a human impact on the environment sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
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                                    {
                                        "id": "kind-and-parents",
                                        "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                        "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
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                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a human impact on the environment from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
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                                    }
                                ]
                            }
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                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a human impact on the environment passes through and the events that move it between them.",
                        "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.",
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                            {
                                "id": "lifecycle-stages",
                                "name": "Lifecycle stages",
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                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a human impact on the environment between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a human impact on the environment, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a human impact on the environment is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "content-and-access",
                        "name": "Content, encoding and access",
                        "description": "What a human impact on the environment says, how it is encoded and who may read it.",
                        "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "content-and-encoding",
                                "name": "Content and encoding",
                                "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "content-and-format",
                                        "name": "Content, format and language",
                                        "description": "What a human impact on the environment contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access-and-rights",
                                "name": "Access, rights and retention",
                                "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-rules",
                                        "name": "Access rules and retention",
                                        "description": "The permissions attached to a human impact on the environment and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "subject-and-method",
                        "name": "Subject matter and method",
                        "description": "What human impact on the environment studies and how it establishes anything.",
                        "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "subject",
                                "name": "Subject matter",
                                "description": "The questions it takes as its own.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "subject-record",
                                        "name": "Questions and objects of study",
                                        "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "subject-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What questions and objects does human impact on the environment take as its own?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "subject-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "method",
                                "name": "Method and evidence",
                                "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "method-record",
                                        "name": "Methods and standards of evidence",
                                        "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "method-record-q01",
                                                "text": "By what methods does human impact on the environment establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "method-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "institutions-and-classification",
                        "name": "Institutions and classification",
                        "description": "Where human impact on the environment is practised and how catalogues place it.",
                        "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "institutions",
                                "name": "Institutional markers",
                                "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "institution-record",
                                        "name": "Bodies and venues",
                                        "description": "Where the field organises itself.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "institution-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark human impact on the environment as an established field?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "institution-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification",
                                "name": "Classification schemes",
                                "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "classification-record",
                                        "name": "Codes and their disagreements",
                                        "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "classification-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which classification schemes place human impact on the environment, under what codes?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "classification-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a human impact on the environment came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a human impact on the environment and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a human impact on the environment is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a human impact on the environment, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a human impact on the environment, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a human impact on the environment is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}