Applications of Interactive Integrated Assessment and Modeling to Design Sustainable Development Strategies for Arctic Watersheds

该项目代表了美国和科拉科学中心（Apatity，俄罗斯）的研究人员的合作，目的是研究减少环境压力对流域生态的影响，以及该地区决策者建立共识的综合建模的价值。 研究人员将在俄罗斯举办一个研讨会，研究工业和人类活动减少对科拉半岛流域生态健康或恢复力的影响，该流域受到工业使用的严重影响。 研究人员将使用建模来评估该地区的经济和社会发展，以及在全球变暖等不断变化的全球条件下可能出现的情况。 讲习班和初步试点项目将用于审查这些模型在半岛其他流域综合评估中的应用价值。

This project represents a collaboration of US and the Kola Science Center (Apatity, Russia) investigators for the purpose of examining the impacts of reduced environmental stress on the watershed ecology and the value of integrated modeling on consensus-building by decision-makers in the region. The investigators will conduct a workshop in Russia to examine the effect of decreased industrial and human activity on the ecological health or resilience of a watershed on the Kola Peninsula that has been severely affected by industrial use. The researchers will use modeling to assess economic and social development of the region and possible scenarios under changing global conditions, such as global warming. The workshop and an initial pilot project will be used to examine the value of the models for application to the integrated assessment of other watersheds on the Peninsula.