US-Germany Cooperative Research: Regional Sustainability: Bridging Resource Conservation & Economic Development

该奖项支持John Gowdy和伦斯勒理工学院的学生与德国莱比锡Umweltforschungzentrum (UFZ)（环境研究中心）经济和社会学研究部的Bernd Hansjuergens合作开展第三年的研究。由该奖项资助的研究将使德国和美国的研究人员能够分享和比较两个项目的研究成果，一个在哈德逊河流域，另一个在易北河流域，每个项目都研究经济活动，土地利用变化之间的联系，以及它们对生态和可持续发展政策的影响。最终的结果将是一个为追求区域可持续性提供严格分析基础的过程。这项联合合作研究工作为初级研究人员提供了大量的机会，这项提案所做的工作将使伦斯勒与UFZ经济和社会学研究部之间的关系制度化。

0089771GowdyThis award supports a third year of funding for John Gowdy and students from the Rensselaer Polytech Institute in a collaboration with Bernd Hansjuergens of the Department of Economic and Sociological Research at the Umweltforschungzentrum (UFZ) (Center for Environmental Research) in Leipzig, Germany. The research funded by this award will make it possible for the German and U.S. researchers to share and compare research findings on two projects, one in the Hudson river watershed and one in the Elbe river watershed, each of which examines the connections between economic activity, land use changes, and their impact on the ecology and on sustainable development policies. The end result will be a process that provides a rigorous analytical foundation for the pursuit of regional sustainability. The opportunity this joint, collaborative research effort presents junior researchers is substantial, and the work done on this proposal will institutionalize the relationship between Renssealer and the UFZ Department of Economics and Sociological Research.