Biocomplexity Incubation Activity: Integrating Social Science Into Long-Term Ecological Research

生物复杂性孵化活动：将社会科学融入长期生态研究

• 批准号: 0083744
• 负责人: Charles Redman
• 金额: $ 9.93万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0083744&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biocomplexity; Incubation; Activity; Integrating; Social

The rapid growth in understandings of the complex ways that human and natural systems interact in a broad range of environments have led to intensified calls for greater collaboration among social and natural scientists in the study of long-term environmental change. Major differences in theoretical perspectives, vocabulary, organizational structure, and scientific culture have inhibited these collaborations, but increasing numbers of researchers in both the human and natural sciences now are looking to bridge the gaps that previously separated them. This Biocomplexity Incubation Activity award will provide support to enable the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) project in collaboration with the Baltimore Ecosystems Study (BES LTER) to hold a series of workshops to promote the integration of social sciences into long-term ecological research. The project's primary objective will be to spark scientifically exciting interdisciplinary research that brings together social, biological, and physical scientists to better understand human ecosystems. The project is based on a previous workshop where social and biophysical scientists reached a consensus on a broad conceptual framework for investigating human ecosystems and proposed a set of social patterns and processes key to their study. Because a unified understanding of human ecosystems needs to be taken in incremental steps, four research projects will be identified where investigators agree that bringing together social, biological, and physical scientists would lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms that govern ecosystem dynamics. An initial workshop focusing on the practical issues will help the four research projects implement integrated research. A second workshop will focus in depth on the proposed social patterns and processes and suggest ways these core topics can be implemented in the pilot projects. A final workshop will develop specific ways the proposed projects can accommodate the multiple spatial and temporal scales of the human ecosystem. This project will facilitate the development and dissemination of strategies for integration. The focus on four pilot projects will enable pragmatic solutions to emerge, with these solutions providing insights that will facilitate planning for enhanced involvement of social scientists by additional LTER sites. This sustained effort will foster progressive steps toward the integration of the social sciences into long-term ecological research and development of a unified understanding of human ecosystems, one of the most urgent challenges to understanding biocomplexity and the environment.

人们对人类和自然系统在广泛的环境中相互作用的复杂方式的理解的迅速增长导致人们在研究长期环境变化方面加剧了社会和自然科学家之间更大的合作。 理论观点，词汇，组织结构和科学文化的主要差异抑制了这些合作，但是人类和自然科学中越来越多的研究人员现在都在寻求弥合以前分开它们的差距。 该生物复合孵化活动奖将提供支持，以使亚利桑那州中部的长期生态研究（CAP LTER）项目与巴尔的摩生态系统研究（BES LETER）合作，以举办一系列研讨会，以促进社会科学融合到长期的生态研究中。 该项目的主要目标是激发科学令人兴奋的跨学科研究，该研究汇集了社会，生物学和物理科学家，以更好地了解人类的生态系统。 该项目基于以前的研讨会，在该研讨会上，社会和生物物理科学家就研究人类生态系统的广泛概念框架达成了共识，并提出了一组社会模式和过程，这是他们研究的关键。 由于需要以渐进的步骤采取对人类生态系统的统一理解，因此将确定四个研究项目，其中研究人员同意将社会，生物学和物理科学家汇集在一起​​，可以更好地理解对管理生态系统动态的机制。 关注实际问题的最初研讨会将有助于四个研究项目实施综合研究。 第二个研讨会将重点关注所提出的社会模式和过程，并提出可以在试点项目中实施这些核心主题的方法。 最终的研讨会将开发拟议项目可以适应人类生态系统的多个空间和时间尺度的特定方式。 该项目将促进整合策略的发展和传播。 对四个试点项目的关注将使实用解决方案能够出现，这些解决方案提供了见解，这些解决方案将有助于计划通过其他少量站点来增强社会科学家的参与。 这种持续的努力将促进将社会科学整合到对人类生态系统的统一理解的长期生态研究和发展中，这是理解生物复杂性和环境的最紧迫挑战之一。