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

在过去一个世纪的大部分时间里，与人类福利和福祉有关的政策措施集中在经济财富和社会人口统计的国家指数上。近年来，许多机构已开始转而使用可持续发展的指标，以便将社会对自然的依赖纳入经济和社会政策。在这一过程中，这些机构正在改变科学计量与民主价值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类和自然耦合系统的可持续性，并将科学测量的焦点从民族国家转移到社会中的许多参与者，包括非政府组织、工业、地方社区、国际机构和专家社区。凭借这一职业发展奖，PI建议研究可持续发展指标的构建和政策吸收，作为调查科学和治理如何随着人们应对全球化和生态退化的挑战而变化的一个场所。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、美国和英国如何在三个环境政策制定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;农业和粮食安全。教育部分将包括研究生培训计划和本科课程开发，重点关注科学和技术作为人类制度和政治概念的重新调整，如机构、权威、身份、主权和价值观，这些都伴随着科学和技术的变革。利用该奖项建立的项目将有助于新兴科学和技术研究领域的理论发展，并将其纳入其他社会科学学科以及科学和政策实践。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，该项目将为全球环境变化的人类维度的应用跨学科领域做出贡献。

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.