Workshop on Geographic Contributions to Global Change Research: Atlanta, Georgia; April 1993

随着近年来全球变化研究的发展， 需要更好地理解 人类和自然系统之间的关系变得越来越明显。 由于长期的利益和专业知识的分析 人类与环境在不同尺度上的相互作用， 地理学家特别适合在 在发展和开展人类和 全球变化的其他方面。 虽然有相当多的 地理学家们挺身而出， 注意到这个重要的话题，许多其他地理学家已经 没有认识到利用其概念的潜力， 框架和研究方法，以解决这些重要的 问题 该奖项将为一个关于 地理对全球变化研究的贡献。 讲习班 将于1993年4月初在格鲁吉亚亚特兰大举行， 在大会年度会议开始之前， 美国地理学家协会（AAG），最大的 美国研究型地理学家专业协会 这次研讨会标志着联合工作的一个关键阶段， 由AAG领导人与NSF地理和区域 科学计划官员 地理学家们一直引领着 研究人员就与全球环境的人的方面有关的专题， 环境变化将有助于AAG领导人和NSF计划 在挑选大约50名参与者和 会议的进行。 研讨会将包括一系列 在全体会议之间穿插的工作组讨论 所有与会者将开会讨论要点， 在小组讨论中提出。 会议成果 将在广泛传播的出版物上发表一些文章， AAG及其专业团体。 这些文章应该会有所帮助 确定地理学家要从事的重要调查路线 在三个一般方法中的一个或多个中。 的另一项成果 研讨会应该是NSF计划官员的新知识， 必须满足的研究需求，以促进 地理学家更多地参与基础和应用研究 人类和全球变化的其他方面。 该讲习班应有助于更积极地参与 研究全球变化的地理学家， 当前的理论框架和方法论 可以适用于解决各种问题。 讲习班 还应协助NSF项目官员确定新的 基金会可能用于促进和 支持地理学家和其他空间研究人员进行基础研究 科学家们在这个关键的话题上。

As research on global change has evolved in recent years, the need for greater understanding of the complex interactions among human and natural systems has become increasingly apparent. Because of long-standing interests and expertise in the analysis of human-environmental interactions at a variety of scales, geographers have been especially well suited to play central roles in the development and conduct of research on the human and other dimensions of global change. While a significant number of geographers have stepped forward and turned their scholarly attention to this important topic, many other geographers have not recognized the potential for using their conceptual frameworks and research approaches to address these important problems. This award will provide support for a workshop on geographic contributions to global change research. The workshop will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, in early April 1993, immediately prior to the start of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), the largest professional society of research-oriented geographers in the U.S. This workshop marks a critical stage in joint work that has been conducted by AAG leaders together with NSF Geography and Regional Science Program officers. Geographers who have been leading researchers on topics related to the human dimensions of global environmental change will assist AAG leaders and NSF program officers in the selection of roughly 50 participants and in the conduct of the conference. The workshop will consist of a series of working-group discussions interspersed among plenary sessions at which all participants will meet to consider salient points raised in their group discussions. The outcome of the conference will be a number of articles in widely disseminated publications of the AAG and its specialty groups. These articles should help identify important lines of inquiry to be pursued by geographers in one or more of three general approaches. Another outcome of the workshop should be new knowledge by NSF program officers of research needs that must be addressed in order to stimulate greater involvement of geographers in basic and applied inquiries into the human and other dimensions of global change. This workshop should facilitate the more active involvement of geographers in research on global change by identifying ways that current theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches can be adapted to address a variety of problems. The workshop also should assist NSF program officers in determining new strategies that the foundation might use to facilitate and support basic research by geographers and other spatially oriented scientists on this critical topic.