Preparation of an ISSC Plan of Action for Research on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

制定 ISSC 全球环境变化人类影响研究行动计划

• 批准号: 8918344
• 负责人: Harold Jacobson
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 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 1990-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8918344&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparation; ISSC; Plan; Action; Research

In order to increase our knowledge about the causes and consequences of global environmental change, social scientists from around the world must work together to shed light on how humans affect and respond to natural processes of change. Many new insights will result from independent research projects, but coordinated assessment of extant research and identification of research needs is also needed in order to facilitate collaborative research and more effective work by independent scholars. This project will enable the International Social Science Council (ISSC) to develop an action plan for research on the human dimensions of global environmental change for consideration and adoption at the ISSC general assembly late in 1990. In establishing this action plan, ISSC leaders and staff members will review the current state of knowledge with respect to human impacts on and responses to global environmental change, paying special attention to social dimensions of resource use, perception and assessment of environmental change, and the effects of institutional mechanisms on the global environment. A few broad-scale activities that should advance multi-disciplinary understanding of these problems will be identified, as will be a larger number of specific research projects that can be conducted in parallel with one another or cooperatively on an international basis. NSF support of this project will be complemented by grants from funding organizations in other nations. Development of an action plan for research by ISSC and its fifteen member unions should provide a substantial stimulus for collaborative research by social scientists throughout the world. Because of the global scale of the problem, an international approach to identifying and understanding the ways in which human and natural systems interact is essential. Because this project is undertaken by scholars from many countries, the ISSC research plan is most likely to be one from which international collaboration will result. This project therefore should speed the process of understanding the myriad ways in which humans interact with the natural environment during these times of rapid change.

为了增加我们对全球环境变化的原因和后果的了解，来自世界各地的社会科学家必须共同努力，阐明人类如何影响和应对自然变化过程。许多新的见解将来自独立的研究项目，但是为了促进合作研究和独立学者更有效的工作，还需要对现有研究进行协调评估和确定研究需求。这个项目将使国际社会科学理事会（社会科学理事会）能够制订一项行动计划，研究全球环境变化的人的方面，供1990年底国际社会科学理事会大会审议和通过。在制定这一行动计划时，国际科学委员会领导人和工作人员将审查关于人类对全球环境变化的影响和反应的现有知识状况，特别注意资源利用的社会层面、对环境变化的认识和评价以及体制机制对全球环境的影响。将确定一些应该促进对这些问题的多学科理解的大规模活动，以及可以相互平行或在国际基础上合作进行的大量具体研究项目。美国国家科学基金会对该项目的支持将得到其他国家资助组织的资助。为国际社联及其十五个成员工会的研究制定行动计划，将大大促进全世界社会科学家的合作研究。由于这一问题是全球性的，因此确定和理解人类和自然系统相互作用方式的国际方法至关重要。由于这个项目是由许多国家的学者共同承担的，所以ISSC的研究计划很可能是一个国际合作的研究计划。因此，这个项目应该加速理解人类在这些快速变化的时代与自然环境相互作用的无数方式的过程。