CAREER: Indicators of Sustainability: Science and Democracy in the Making

在过去一个世纪的大部分时间里，衡量人类福利和福祉的政策相关指标一直侧重于衡量各国经济财富和社会人口结构的指数。近年来，许多机构开始使用可持续发展指标，以便将社会对自然的依赖纳入经济和社会政策。在这个过程中，这些机构正在改变科学测量和民主价值观之间关系的基本方面。这一变化标志着人们越来越关注全球范围内人与自然耦合系统的可持续性，并将科学测量的中心从民族国家转移到社会上的许多参与者，包括非政府组织、行业、当地社区、国际机构和专家社区。有了这一职业发展奖，国际和平研究所建议研究可持续发展指标的构建和政策采纳，以此作为调查科学和治理在人们努力应对全球化和生态退化的挑战时如何变化的场所。PI将在爱荷华州立大学开发一个综合研究和教育项目。研究部分将比较国际组织、美国和英国如何在环境政策制定的三个领域整合和使用可持续发展指标：自然资源枯竭；生态系统服务；以及农业和粮食安全。教育部分将包括研究生培养计划和本科课程开发，重点是作为人类机构的科学技术，以及伴随科技变革的政治观念的重新调整，如机构、权威、身份、主权和价值观。利用该奖项设立的课程将有助于新兴科学技术研究领域的理论发展，并有助于将其吸收到其他社会科学学科和科学和政策实践中。此外，作为爱荷华州立大学可持续发展科学、技术和公共政策新倡议的一部分，该计划将促进全球环境变化的人文层面的应用跨学科领域。

For much of the past century, policy-relevant measures of human welfare and well-being have focused on national indices of economic wealth and social demographics. In recent years, numerous institutions have begun instead to use indicators of sustainable development so as to incorporate society's dependence on nature into economic and social policies. In the process, these institutions are transforming fundamental aspects of the relationship between scientific measurement and democratic values. The change marks a growing concern for the sustainability of coupled human and natural systems on global scales and shifts the locus of scientific measurement from the nation state to a host of actors in society, including NGOs, industry, local communities, international institutions, and expert communities. With this career development award, the PI proposes to study the construction and policy uptake of indicators of sustainable development as a site for investigating how science and governance change as people grapple with the challenges of globalization and ecological degradation. The PI will develop an integrated research and educational program at Iowa State University. The research component will compare how international organizations, the U.S. and the U.K. put together and use indicators of sustainable development in three areas of environmental policymaking: natural resource depletion; ecosystem services; and agriculture and food security. The educational component will include a graduate training program and undergraduate curriculum development focused on science and technology as human institutions and the readjustments of political concepts-such as agency, authority, identity, sovereignty, and values-that accompany scientific and technological change.The program established using this award will contribute to theoretical developments in the emerging field of science and technology studies and to their uptake into other social science disciplines and into scientific and policy practice. In addition, the program will contribute to the applied interdisciplinary field of the human dimensions of global environmental change as part of Iowa State University's new initiative in science, technology, and public policy for sustainable development.