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

作为NSF全球变化人文因素研究联盟的一部分，该奖项在印第安纳州大学建立了机构、人口和环境变化研究中心（CIPEC）。 CIPEC的主要重点是对机构介导的毁林和造林过程进行系统的长期研究。 三个广泛的问题作为中心组织主题的研究：（1）如何在家庭和社区层面的人类行为与区域和全球变化现象？ (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运输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，首要的问题是解决具体项目，结合联合收割机的努力，社会科学家，生态学家，和物理科学家一起工作，在精心挑选的地点进行持续的，长期的研究，使用最好的方法从物理，生物和社会科学。 该中心借鉴了现有的四个印第安纳州大学中心的专业知识：全球环境变化培训和研究人类学中心（ACT），政治理论与分析研讨会，国家全球环境变化研究所中西部区域中心（NIGEC）和人口研究与培训研究所（PIRT）。 CIPEC还解决了国家需要培训博士级环境社会科学家严格的学科方法和跨学科技能的发展。 该中心在国际上致力于培训来自一些国家的职业中期学者和专业人员，认识到环境变化的全球性。 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将促进全球变化中人的方面的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.