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

人们越来越担心全球人类和 环境变化突出了创建新数据库的必要性 分析变化过程，并更多地利用现有数据库。 该奖项提供部分资金，使一组约20 来自太平洋沿岸国家的社会和自然科学家将在 檀香山，以解决与全球 更改数据收集、访问和使用。 会议将有两个 一般目的：（1）具体说明数据需要和数据的可得性， 数据库，以解决有关人类，自然和物理问题， 太平洋沿岸全球变化的维度;（2）讨论 处理这些数据的学术使用的问题，特别是 对国家敏感问题、专利问题、 权利，系统偏差，纵向延伸，遥感 地理信息中使用的数据的适应性 系统. 会议的主要结果将在一份 在一份主要的科学期刊上发表的特别文章。 会议将进一步了解基本数据 需要全面审查全球变化进程， 审查一系列广泛的数据需求和相关的数据使用问题， 限制地理区域。 会议应强调剩余的 问题，并为独立专家今后的行动提出建议。 学者和机构，包括政府机构。

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.