Conference on Improving Institutional Arrangements for Research and Education About Global Environmental Change, March 1989, University of California, Los Angeles

最近的举措，以监测和模拟复杂的关系 地球物理、生物和气候过程之间的联系 世界各国都强调需要了解人和人类 机构调整和应对全球环境变化。 多- 关于全球环境问题人的方面的学科综合研究 然而，环境变化发展缓慢，部分原因是 大多数社会科学家和自然科学家在 与来自其他学科的学者合作， 人类与环境的复杂关系。 该项目将 召集一小群来自全国各地的社会和自然科学家， 在洛杉矶的加州大学举行的一次会议上， 洛杉矶评估如何在大学的制度结构可以 为促进人类和自然科学的研究和教学， 全球环境变化的维度。 的讨论 会议将重点确定纪律和组织 阻碍合作研究和教学的障碍。 替代 将提出加强合作工作的安排， 评估。 将编写一份关于会议的书面报告， 分发给不在场的学者和行政人员。 这次会议将审查这一进程的一个重要方面， 鼓励和开展研究的主题迅速增长， 从学术和应用的角度来看。 出版物 这次会议的结果将使我们能够得出结论， 由出席的学者与感兴趣的人分享 其他地方 因此，会议可能会有有益的 对全球环境变化研究和教学的影响 在全国范围内。

Recent initiatives to monitor and model the complex relationships between geophysical, biological, and climatic processes throughout the world have emphasized the need to understand how people and human institutions modify and respond to global environmental change. Multi- disciplinary, integrated research on the human dimensions of global environmental change has been slow to develop, however, in part because most social and natural scientists have had little experience in working with scholars from other disciplines on large-scale analyses of complex human and environmental interrelationships. This project will convene a small group of social and natural scientists from throughout the nation for a conference at the University of California at Los Angeles to assess how institutional structures at universities can be altered to facilitate research and teaching on human and natural dimensions of global environmental change. Discussions at the conference will focus on identifying disciplinary and organizational barriers that inhibit cooperative research and teaching. Alternative arrangements for enhancing cooperative work will be proposed and evaluated. A written report about the conference will be prepared for distribution to scholars and administrators not in attendance. This conference will examine an important facet of the process of encouraging and conducting research on a topic of rapidly growing importance from both scholarly and applied perspectives. Publication of the results of this conference will enable the conclusions reached by scholars in attendance to be shared with interested persons elsewhere. As a result, the conference likely will have beneficial impacts on research and teaching on global environmental change throughout the nation.