A Proposal to Support A Center for the Study ofInstitutions, Population, and Environmental Change

作为NSF全球变化的人类层面研究联盟的一部分，该奖项在印第安纳大学建立了一个机构、人口和环境变化研究中心(CIPEC)。CIPEC的主要重点是在机构的协调下，对毁林和植树造林过程进行系统、长期的研究。三个广泛的问题是组织研究的中心主题：(1)家庭和社区一级的人类行为如何与区域和全球变化现象联系起来？(2)在全球一级观察和模拟的宏观物理过程如何与中观和微观的人类组织和决策过程联系起来？(3)体制安排如何影响人口和交通网络等人类驱动力对森林生态系统和全球变化的影响的方向和规模？这些广泛的首要问题通过具体的项目来解决，这些项目结合了社会科学家、生态学家和物理学家的努力，利用物理、生物和社会科学的最佳方法，在精心选择的地点进行持续的、长期的研究。该中心借鉴了印第安纳大学现有的四个中心的专业知识：全球环境变化人类学培训和研究中心(ACT)、政治理论和分析研讨会、国家全球环境变化研究所(NIGEC)中西部区域中心和人口研究与培训研究所(PIRT)。CIPEC还解决了在严格的学科方法和发展跨学科技能方面培训博士级环境社会科学家的国家需要。该中心在国际上致力于培训来自若干国家的职业生涯中期学者和专业人员，以认识到环境变化的全球性质。CIPEC将产生新的发现和新的知识，这将扩大我们对全球变化的人类层面的理解，并影响更大的HDGC社区的研究方向。此外，CIPEC将在全球变化的人文层面促进跨学科研究和多学科培训。

As part of an NSF Consortium for Research on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, this award establishes a Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) at Indiana University. CIPEC's primary focus is on a systematic, long-term study of deforestation and afforestation processes as mediated by institutions. Three broad questions serve as central organizing themes for research: (1) How is human behavior at household and community levels linked to regional and global change phenomena? (2) How can macro-scale physical processes observed and modeled at a global level be linked to meso and micro human organizational and decision-making processes? (3) How do institutional arrangements influence the direction and size of the impact of human driving forces, such as population and transportation networks, on forest ecosystems and global change? These broad, overarching questions are addressed by specific projects that combine the efforts of social scientists, ecologists, and physical scientists working together on sustained, over-time research conducted in carefully selected sites using the best methods from the physical, biological, and the social sciences. The Center draws on expertise from four existing Indiana University centers: The Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT), the Workshop in Political Theory and Analysis, the Midwestern Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC), and the Population Institute for Research and Training (PIRT). CIPEC also addresses the national need of training doctoral-level environmental social scientists in rigorous disciplinary methods and the development of interdisciplinary skills. The Center has an international commitment to the training of mid-career scholars and professionals from a number of countries in recognition of the global nature of environmental change. CIPEC will produce new discoveries and new knowledge that will both expand our understanding of the human dimensions of global change and influence the direction of research in the larger HDGC community. In addition, CIPEC will foster both interdisciplinary research and multidisciplinary training in the human dimensions of global change.