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，更多地了解人类与自然系统之间的复杂相互作用的必要性变得越来越明显。由于在各种尺度上分析人-环境相互作用方面的长期兴趣和专业知识，地理学家特别适合在发展和开展关于人类和全球变化其他方面的研究方面发挥中心作用。虽然有相当数量的地理学家挺身而出，将他们的学术注意力转向这个重要的主题，但许多其他地理学家没有认识到利用他们的概念框架和研究方法来解决这些重要问题的潜力。这一奖项将为一个关于地理对全球变化研究的贡献的研讨会提供支持。讲习班将于1993年4月初在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行，紧接美国地理学家协会(AAG)年会开始之前，这是美国最大的研究型地理学家专业协会。此次研讨会标志着AAG领导人与NSF地理和地区科学计划官员共同开展的工作进入了一个关键阶段。在与全球环境变化的人类层面相关的主题上领导研究人员的地理学家将协助AAG领导人和NSF项目官员挑选大约50名与会者并主持会议。讲习班将包括在全体会议之间穿插的一系列工作组讨论，所有与会者将在这些会议上开会，审议其小组讨论中提出的突出问题。会议的成果将是在AAG及其专门小组广泛传播的出版物上发表的一些文章。这些文章应该有助于确定地理学家在三种一般方法中的一种或多种中寻求的重要调查路线。研讨会的另一个成果应该是NSF项目官员对研究需求的新知识，这些需求必须得到解决，以刺激地理学家更多地参与对人类和全球变化其他方面的基本和应用调查。这一讲习班应有助于地理学家更积极地参与全球变化的研究，确定如何调整现有的理论框架和方法，以解决各种问题。研讨会还应帮助NSF项目官员确定基金会可能使用的新战略，以促进和支持地理学家和其他以空间为导向的科学家在这一关键主题上的基础研究。

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.