U.S.-U.S.S.R. Workshop on Soviet-American Cooperation in Arctic/Northern Social Sciences (Moscow: September 1990)

美国和苏联最近发生的事件为北极社会科学研究领域的科学合作创造了一个富有成效的环境和浓厚的兴趣。在美国，1984年的《北极政策研究法》以及美国国家科学院和其他机构的报告都集中注意这一领域；因此，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）最近设立了一个新的北极社会科学研究项目。在苏联，关于北方发展的社会经济和生态影响的激烈公开辩论已经出现，这导致了苏联科学界对这些领域的社会科学研究产生了极大的兴趣。本次研讨会的主要目的是利用两国在这一领域日益增长的兴趣，为美苏两国顶尖专家提供交流当前工作信息和制定长期合作研究计划的机会。特别强调人类社区与构成北极自然环境的生物和物理系统之间的关系。该研讨会由美国国家科学院（NAS）和苏联科学院（ASUSSR）联合组织。美国国家科学院的参与由美国国家科学院/国家研究委员会极地研究委员会管理，代表团将由达特茅斯学院的奥兰·杨博士率领。在苏联科学院北极研究委员会的主持下，苏联代表团将由苏联科学院地理研究所所长V.M. Kotlyakov院士担任主席。该项目通过使美国和苏联的主要研究人员在平等、互惠和互利的基础上，在共同感兴趣和有能力的基础科学研究领域结合互补的努力和能力，实现了推进科学知识的计划目标。

Recent events in both the United States and the Soviet Union have created a productive environment for, and strong interest in, scientific cooperation in the field of Arctic social science research. In the United States, the Arctic Policy Research Act of 1984, together with reports of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and other bodies, have focused attention on this field; as a result the National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently established a new program in Arctic Social Science Research. In the U.S.S.R., intense public debate has emerged over the socioeconomic and ecological impacts of northern development has led to significant interest in social science research on these areas on the part of the Soviet scientific community. The primary objective of this workshop is to take advantage of the rising interest in both countries in this field by giving leading U.S. and Soviet specialists an opportunity to exchange information on current work and to develop plans for long-term cooperative research, with particular emphasis on the relationships between human communities and the biological and physical systems that make up the natural environment of the Arctic. The workshop is being organized jointly by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. (ASUSSR). The NAS participation is being managed by the NAS/National Research Council Polar Research Board and the delegation will be led by Dr. Oran Young of Dartmouth College. The Soviet delegation, under the auspices of the ASUSSR Commission for Arctic Research, will be chaired by Academician V.M. Kotlyakov, Director of the ASUSSR Institute of Geography. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and the U.S.S.R. to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence in the field of basic scientific research on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.