U.S.-China Joint Seminar on Social Science Research in Support of the International Geosphere/Biosphere Program (May 1988, Beijing)

该奖项支持9名美国研究人员参与一项 与北京大学合办社会科学研究研讨会 国际地圈/生物圈计划（IGBP） IGBP是国际科学理事会的一项努力， 联盟（科联理事会）"描述和理解互动的物理， 调节地球整体的化学和生物过程 系统，它为生命提供的独特环境， 这个系统正在发生的变化，以及 它们受到人类行为的影响。" 本次研讨会将重点关注社会科学的发展 研究计划，以补充IGBP。 社会进程， 对人类活动变化的解释， 许多重要的自然现象及其建模， 有限公司中美双方共同努力， 社会科学研究计划的定义， 为IGBP做出贡献可能是迈向 国际研究计划的定义是响应 所有国家，包括发达国家和发展中国家， 以及中美两国的具体国情需要。 这 研讨会由NSF和中国国家共同支持 基础教育合作议定书教育委员会 以理工科为重

This award supports the participation of nine US researchers in a joint seminar with Beijing University on a social science research program for the International Geosphere/Biosphere Program (IGBP). The IGBP is an effort of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) to "describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical, and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system, the unique environment that it provides for life, the changes that are occurring in this system, and the manner in which they are influenced by human actions." This seminar will focus on the development of a social science research program to complement the IGBP. The social processes that account for change in human activities are less well understood than many important natural phenomena and modeling of them is even more limited. The joint efforts of China and the US to contribute to the definition of a research program in the social sciences to contribute to the IGBP could be one of the first steps toward definition of an international research program which is responsive to the needs of all countries, both developed and developing, as well as to the specific national needs of China and the US. This seminar is being supported jointly by NSF and the Chinese State Education Commission under the Protocol on Cooperation in Basic Sciences.