A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Program on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

关于全球环境变化的人文因素的跨学科合作研究计划

• 批准号: 8912971
• 负责人: David Featherman
• 金额: $ 14.22万
• 依托单位: Social Science Research Council
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-09-01 至 1991-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8912971&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Interdisciplinary; Research; Program; Human

The growing attention focused on accelerating processes of global environmental change have highlighted the need for increased understandings of the role of humans as initiators of and respondents to rapid changes in natural environmental conditions. Many independent research projects have begun or are being planned by social and behavioral scientists, but these inquiries have heightened the need for coordination of multi-disciplinary analyses of the human dimensions of global environmental change. This project will foster and integrate research on six important aspects of this topic: (1) development of a theory and methodology for studying worldwide changes in land-use patterns, (2) development of an epidemiology linking human health with global environmental change, (3) examination of how institutions manage global change, (4) analyses of how national and international security concerns are related to global change, (5) empirical definition and measurement of "sustainable development," and (6) study of how science and society identify and respond to environmental problems, expand knowledge about the processes producing these problems, and make that knowledge more useful. The award recipient, the Social Science Research Council, will form a new committee on Research on Global Environmental Change to oversee this effort. That committee will commission and respond to review articles from experts on these six issues. Committee members will prepare synthetic articles for inclusion in a volume to present the group's findings, and the committee will sponsor working groups to develop research projects related to each of the issues. This project will provide a number of tangible benefits. The volume containing review and integrative articles on the six issues should furnish scholars with excellent summaries of present knowledge about these critical topics and outline general approaches that are likely to yield substantial contributions to knowledge. By coordinating the development of research projects, the committee will reduce duplication of effort and enable more effective generalization from independent research efforts. Furthermore, the committee's and working groups' efforts should directly involve a much larger number of the nation's leading social and behavioral scientists in analyses of this critical issue than otherwise would become involved.

人们越来越关注全球化进程的加速， 环境变化凸显了增加 对人类作为发起者和回应者的作用的理解 自然环境条件的快速变化。 许多独立 研究项目已经开始或正在计划由社会和 行为科学家，但这些调查已经提高了需要 协调对人权方面的多学科分析， 全球环境变化。 该项目将促进和整合 本课题的六个重要方面的研究：（1）开发一个 研究全球土地利用变化的理论和方法 模式，（2）发展将人类健康与 全球环境变化，（3）审查机构如何 管理全球变化，（4）分析国家和国际 安全问题与全球变化有关，（5）经验 "可持续发展"的定义和衡量;（6）研究 科学和社会如何识别和应对环境问题 问题，扩大有关生产这些过程的知识 问题，并使这些知识更有用。 获奖者， 社会科学研究理事会将成立一个新的委员会， 研究全球环境变化，以监督这一努力。 的 委员会将委托并回应专家的评论文章 这六个问题。 委员会成员将编写综合文章 以收录在一本书中，介绍该小组的研究结果， 委员会将赞助工作组开发研究项目 与每一个问题有关。 该项目将带来一些切实的好处。 的 载有关于六个问题的评论和综合文章的一卷 应该为学者提供对现有知识的出色总结 关于这些关键主题，并概述了 可能会对知识做出重大贡献。 通过 委员会负责统筹研究项目的发展， 减少重复劳动，提高推广效率 独立的研究成果。 此外，委员会和 工作组的工作应直接涉及更多的 全国领先的社会和行为科学家在分析 这一关键问题，否则将成为涉及。