Carnegie Mellon Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change

卡内基梅隆全球变化人类因素综合研究中心

• 批准号: 9521914
• 负责人: Baruch Fischhoff
• 金额: $ 799.38万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9521914&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Carnegie; Mellon; Center; Integrated; Study

As part of an NSF Consortium for Research on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, this award supports the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change. The Center activities, coordinated through Carnegie-Mellon University, will be conducted by more than thirty researchers from fourteen institutions located in seven countries around the world. The mandate of this Center is the systematic integration of global change research. Such a systematic integration can reveal new insights from the existing body of knowledge, help identify the neglected issues, and promote the necessary research. While integrated analysis will form the core of the Center's efforts, this analysis will be supported with basic and applied research on selected issues of substance, theory, and methods. This work will involve: Descriptive and behavioral studies which aim to understand how humans perceive and behave in their environment, and normative and analytical studies which aim to characterize forces of change in the environment and evaluate alternative policy options. In addition to research, the Center will be active in facilitating better communication between the public, students, decision-makers, and researchers. In summary, the Center will: 1) Provide a single research framework within which to analyze and compare a variety of different aspects of global change; 2) Be a dynamic source of new research ideas and a stimulus for basic research activity on the human dimensions of global change; 3) Advance the state of the art of integrated research and modeling; 4) Facilitate greater collaboration between social and natural scientists on a cross-institutional and cross-national basis in the context of a shared analytical environment; 5) Provide an important vehicle for discourse on global change issues between researchers, the public, and key decision makers around the world; and 6) Provide innovative educational services to citizen groups, schools, universities, and decision-makers.

作为NSF全球变化人文维度研究联盟的一部分，该奖项支持全球变化人文维度综合研究中心。该中心的活动由卡内基-梅隆大学协调，将由来自世界七个国家14个机构的30多名研究人员开展。该中心的任务是系统地整合全球变化研究。这样的系统集成可以揭示现有知识体系中的新见解，有助于识别被忽视的问题，并促进必要的研究。虽然综合分析将构成中心工作的核心，但这一分析将得到对物质、理论和方法等选定问题的基础和应用研究的支持。这项工作将涉及：旨在了解人类在其环境中如何感知和行为的描述性和行为性研究，以及旨在描述环境变化的力量并评估替代政策选择的规范性和分析性研究。除了研究之外，该中心还将积极促进公众、学生、决策者和研究人员之间的更好沟通。总而言之，该中心将：1)提供一个单一的研究框架，在此框架内分析和比较全球变化的各种不同方面；2)成为新研究想法的动态来源，并刺激关于全球变化的人类层面的基础研究活动；3)促进综合研究和建模的最新水平；4)在共享的分析环境中促进社会和自然科学家在跨机构和跨国家的基础上更好地合作；5)为世界各地的研究人员、公众和关键决策者之间讨论全球变化问题提供重要的工具；6)为公民群体、学校、大学和决策者提供创新的教育服务。