BE/CNH: Global Change, Globalization, and the Vulnerability of Mountain Systems

BE/CNH：全球变化、全球化和山区系统的脆弱性

• 批准号: 0119865
• 负责人: Lisa Graumlich
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: Montana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-10-01 至 2005-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0119865&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CNH; Global; Change; Globalization; Vulnerability

Mountain regions provide a unique and important setting within which to examine the interplay of global climate change and globalization. This project seeks to strengthen an international, interdisciplinary research network whose goal is to advance understandings of the dynamics of coupled natural and human systems by characterizing the sources of vulnerability of mountain systems to the combined effects of global warming and global economic restructuring. The strategy underlying the project is to develop research ties among scientists from multiple disciplines studying two mountain regions where the individual impacts of climate change and globalization are already strongly manifest and well documented. These regions are: the Greater Yellowstone Region in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho in the United States and the Mount Kilimanjaro Region in Kenya and Tanzania. U.S. and African scientists from the natural and social sciences will meet at workshops held in Montana and Kenya to address a range of emerging questions, such as how biophysical heterogeneity and diversity of institutional arrangements and economic strategies in mountain systems may enhance, reduce, or change in kind and scale the vulnerability of these regions to climate change. Participants from mountain regions in Asia, Europe, and South America also will be invited to participate in these workshops as a first step in expanding the research network globally.This project will lay the groundwork to develop a global research strategy to address the vulnerability of mountain systems to the interacting influences of global change and globalization. Scientifically, mountain regions provide an ideal setting to develop comparative case studies of differential impacts of global change and globalization given that mountain regions are distributed all over the globe, from the Equator almost to the poles and from oceanic to highly continental climates and are experiencing globalization at widely varying rates. Mountain regions also are critically important in assessing the impacts of global change given that they occupy about one-fifth of the Earth's surface and provide goods and services to about half of humanity. This project is an award emanating from the FY 2001 special competition in Biocomplexity in the Environment focusing on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems.

山区为研究全球气候变化和全球化之间的相互作用提供了一个独特而重要的环境。该项目旨在加强一个国际跨学科研究网络，其目标是通过描述山区系统易受全球变暖和全球经济结构调整综合影响的根源，促进对自然和人类系统耦合动态的理解。该项目的基本战略是在研究两个山区的多学科科学家之间建立研究联系，在这两个山区，气候变化和全球化的个别影响已经非常明显和有充分记录。这些地区是：美国蒙大拿州、怀俄明州和爱达荷州的大黄石地区，以及肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的乞力马扎罗山地区。来自自然科学和社会科学领域的美国和非洲科学家将在蒙大拿州和肯尼亚举行的研讨会上会面，讨论一系列新出现的问题，例如山区系统中制度安排和经济战略的生物物理异质性和多样性如何增强、减少或改变这些地区对气候变化的脆弱性。来自亚洲、欧洲和南美洲山区的与会者也将应邀参加这些研讨会，作为扩大全球研究网络的第一步。该项目将为制定全球研究战略奠定基础，以解决山区系统对全球变化和全球化相互影响的脆弱性问题。从科学上讲，山区提供了一个理想的环境，可以对全球变化和全球化的不同影响进行比较案例研究，因为山区分布在全球各地，从赤道几乎到两极，从海洋性气候到高度大陆性气候，并且正在以差别很大的速度经历全球化。山区在评估全球变化的影响方面也至关重要，因为它们占地球表面的五分之一左右，为大约一半的人类提供商品和服务。该项目是2001年度环境生物复杂性特别竞赛颁发的奖项，重点关注自然和人类系统耦合的动力学。