Collaborative Research: Social Learning in the Management of Global Risks

合作研究：全球风险管理中的社会学习

• 批准号: 9122509
• 负责人: William Clark
• 金额: $ 13.35万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-08-15 至 1996-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9122509&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Social; Learning; Management

This collaborative research project seeks to understand the nature and determinants of long term changes in humanity's competence to deal with global environmental risks. It views that competence as a product of possible interactions among various domestic, state, and international actors: in particular the scientific community, non-governmental organizations, private sector interests, national governments, the media, and international organizations. Changing competence is characterized in terms of the changes in the performance of six management functions: risk assessment, the placing or risks in context, response assessment, strategy formulation, policy implementation, and monitoring/evaluation. The principal theoretical goal of the project is to establish the major processes by which such changes occur, the determinants of those processes, and how both change with time. Special attention is paid to determining the extent to which cumulative learning, as opposed to changing bureaucratic structures, interest configurations, or power alignments, underlies observed changes in management. The principal applied goal is to establish the most important factors constraining cumulative improvements in functional performance, and to characterize policies that might be expected to improve prospects for learning how to manage global environmental risks. These goals are pursued as part of a larger international collaborative effort involving detailed case studies of how 8 countries have dealt with the risks posed by climate change, ozone depletion and acid rain. The work focuses on changing social competencies that have emerged from the interactions of one particularly influential country -- the United States -- with the family of organizations over the last 30 years.

这个合作研究项目旨在了解 以及人类能力长期变化的决定因素， 应对全球环境风险。 委员会认为，这一权限是 这是国内，州， 和国际行为者：特别是科学界， 非政府组织、私营部门利益、国家 政府、媒体和国际组织。 改变 能力的特点是在变化的方面， 履行六项管理职能：风险评估、 将风险置于背景、应对评估、战略中 制定、政策执行和监测/评价。 该项目的主要理论目标是建立 这种变化发生的主要过程， 这些过程，以及两者如何随时间变化。 特别注意 是用来确定累积学习的程度， 反对改变官僚结构， 配置，或权力调整，是观察到的变化的基础， 管理 主要应用目标是建立最 限制在以下方面累积改进的重要因素 功能性能，并描述可能 预计将改善学习如何管理全球 环境风险。 这些目标是作为一个更大的 涉及详细案例研究的国际协作努力 8个国家如何应对气候变化带来的风险 变化、臭氧层损耗和酸雨。 工作重点是 不断变化的社会能力， 一个特别有影响力的国家-美国-的互动 在过去的30年里，