Conference on Data Needs for Study of Human Dimensions of Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin; Honolulu, Hawaii;May 1991

对加速全球人类和环境变化的日益关注突出表明，需要创建新的数据库来分析变化的过程，并更多地利用现有的数据库。该奖项提供部分资金，使来自环太平洋国家的大约20名社会科学家和自然科学家能够于1991年5月在火奴鲁鲁举行会议，解决与全球变化数据收集、获取和使用有关的基本问题。会议将有两个一般目的：(1)明确数据需求和数据库的可用性，以解决与环太平洋地区全球变化的人类、自然和物理方面有关的问题；以及(2)讨论这些数据在学术上的使用问题，特别注意国家敏感性、专利权、系统偏见、纵向扩展、遥感数据和数据在地理信息系统中使用的适应性等问题。会议的主要发现将在一家主要科学期刊上的一篇专题文章中报道。会议将通过全面审查有限地理区域的广泛数据需求和相关数据使用问题，进一步了解基本数据需求，以审查全球变化进程。会议应该突出仍然存在的问题，并为包括政府机构在内的独立学者和机构未来的行动提供建议。

Mounting concerns about accelerating global human and environmental change highlight the need for creation of new databases to analyze processes of change and for greater use of extant databases. This award provides partial funding to enable a group of roughly 20 social and natural scientists from Pacific Rim nations to meet in Honolulu in May 1991 to address fundamental issues related to global change data collection, access, and use. The conference will have two general purposes: (1) to specify data needs and the availability of databases to address questions relating to human, natural, and physical dimensions of global change in the Pacific Rim; and (2) to discuss problems dealing with the scholarly use of these data, with special attention given to issues of national sensitivities, proprietary rights, systematic biases, longitudinal extensions, remotely sensed data, and adaptability of data for use in geographic information systems. The primary findings of the conference will be reported in a special article in a major scientific journal. The conference will further understandings of fundamental data needs to examine processes of global change by comprehensively examining a broad range of data needs and related data-use issues for a restricted geographic area. The conference should highlight remaining problems and provide suggestions for future actions by independent scholars and institutions, including government agencies.