Support for an Ad Hoc Advisory Group of the Consortium on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development

近年来，出现了与环境和其他全球进程有关的新的调查方向。 这些研究方向通常被称为“可持续性科学”，旨在更好地了解不同的人类和自然系统相互作用的动态，以便更好地确定如何组织和开展人类活动，从而最大限度地保持环境质量和人类福祉。 这项奖励将提供支助，使特设咨询小组能够协助建立科学和技术促进可持续发展联合会。 该联合会是通过国际科学理事会、科学和技术促进可持续性倡议以及第三世界科学院的协调活动建立的。 该联合会的目标是促进和加强全世界的努力，加强科学和技术对可持续发展的贡献。 特设咨询小组负责就四个要点向联合体伙伴提出建议：（1）将目前正在进行的地方、部门、区域和国际努力的广泛观点纳入联合体的进程，以加强科学和技术对可持续发展的贡献;（2）研究与发展议程和联合体活动方案，以促进以问题为导向的研究与发展，以及开展这类工作所需的能力建设;以及将研究和发展与行动联系起来以促进可持续发展的计划;（三）更充分地使合作体成员能够共同和单独应对利用科学技术促进可持续发展方面的挑战和机遇的战略和机制，发展;（4）关于联合体的方案和业务活动的“执行计划草案”，包括筹资方面，关于知识价值，本项目应推动努力将基础科学和工程研究工作与制定各种办法联系起来，以鼓励个人、团体和各种规模的组织采取政策和采取行动，和经济。 通过像这样基础广泛的规划活动，可以制定协调研究工作的新计划，并在研究人员和参与科学-社会互动的其他人中传播。 关于更广泛的影响，该项目将为世界各国各学科的科学界提供未来研究方向和计划的指导。 它将通过鼓励所有国家的科学家之间更多的互动，进一步发展发展中国家的科学能力。 如果成功的话，该项目还可以通过确定基础科研可以帮助导致未来更可持续的活动的方式，为整个社会带来相当大的长期利益。

Recent years have seen the emergence of new lines of inquiry associated with the environment and other global processes. Often characterized as "sustainability science," these lines of inquiry seek to better understand the dynamics through which different human and natural systems interact with each other in order to better establish how human activity might be organized and conducted so as to maximize the likelihood that environmental quality and human well-being can be sustained. This award will provide support to enable an ad hoc advisory group to assist in the development of a Consortium for Science and Technology for Sustainable Development. This consortium has been established through the coordinated activities of the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS), and the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). The goal of the consortium is to promote and strengthen efforts around the world to enhance the contribution of science and technology to sustainable development. The ad hoc advisory group has been charged make recommendations regarding four major points to the consortium partners: (1) A process for bringing into the consortium perspectives from a broad range of local, sectoral, regional, and international efforts now underway to enhance the contribution of science and technology to sustainable development; (2) A research and development agenda and a program of activities for the consortium that will promote problem-driven research and development, the capacity building necessary to carry out such work; and plans for linking research and development with actions in ways that will facilitate sustainable development; (3) Strategies and mechanisms that would more fully enable the consortium members jointly and individually to address the challenges and opportunities in harnessing science and technology for sustainable development; and (4) A "draft plan of implementation" for the programmatic and operational activities, including funding aspects, of the consortium.With respect to intellectual merit, this project should advance efforts to link basic science and engineering research efforts with the development of approaches to encourage individuals, groups, and organizations at all scales to adopt policies and undertake actions that will sustain the environment, society, and the economy. Through broadly based planning activities like this, new plans for coordinated research efforts can be developed and disseminated among researchers and others engaged in the science-society interface. With respect to broader impacts, the project will provide guidance regarding future research directions and plans for scientific communities across a broad range of disciplines and in nations around the world. It will further the development of scientific capacity in developing nations by encouraging greater interaction among scientists in all nations. If successful, the project also could have considerable long-term benefits for society as a whole by identifying ways in which basic scientific research can help lead to more sustainable activities in the future.