Scientific Integration and Coordination Activities of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

在国际科学理事会的主持下组织的国际地圈-生物圈计划(IGBP)最近完成了其第一个十年研究的综合工作，并正在开始其第二个十年，其研究议程范围更广、更具综合性。这项工作的总体目标是研究生物、化学和物理过程以及人类系统之间的相互作用。这项工作将通过八个核心项目进行，重点是地球系统的三个主要舱室(陆地、海洋和大气)、这些舱室之间的三个接口，以及两个涉及过去、现在和未来系统级一体化的项目。这些协调和整合活动的目的将是促进政府间气候变化框架计划网络的地球系统科学重点，方法是：a)影响政府间气候变化框架计划核心项目之间的有效和全面的沟通，并为这些项目提供地球系统背景；b)与其在跨学科地球系统科学伙伴关系中的国际伙伴方案协作，以解决更广泛的可持续性科学问题，并将政府间气候变化框架计划的成果放在全球变化的背景下；C)以可理解的方式向更广泛的科学界、教育部门、机构和其他利益攸关方组织以及公众传达政府间地球科学计划对全球环境变化的调查结果。这一整合将涉及仔细规划：确定系统一级的假设和问题，建设研究基础设施以解决这些假设和问题，并确保政府间地球科学计划核心项目的努力以协同的方式进行。这将使来自自然科学和相关社会科学的科学家以及来自80多个国家的科学家能够以高效和集中的方式合作，不仅推动其学科领域的发展，而且更重要的是，解决系统层面的全球环境变化问题。IGBP还将继续开发新的方式，将其研究结果传达给科学界以外的利益攸关方。

The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), organized under the auspices of the International Council for Science recently completed a synthesis of its first decade of research and is embarking on its second decade with a broader, and even more integrative research agenda. The overall goal of this effort is to study interactions between biological, chemical and physical processes, and human systems. This effort will be conducted through eight core projects focused on the three major Earth System compartments (land, ocean and atmosphere), the three interfaces between these compartments, and two projects dealing with systems-level integration from the past through the present and into the future.The IGBP will be coordinated by a scientific committee supported by the IGBP Secretariat. These coordination and integration activities will be aimed at facilitating the Earth System Science focus of the IGBP network by a) affecting efficient and comprehensive communication between the IGBP core projects and providing the Earth System context for the these projects; b) collaborating with its international partner programmes in the transdisciplinary Earth System Science Partnership to address wider issues of sustainability science and put IGBP results in the global change context; c) communicating the results of IGBP investigations into global environmental change in an understandable way to the wider scientific community, the education sector, agencies and other stakeholder organizations, and the public.This integration will involve careful planning: identifying systems-level hypotheses and questions, constructing research infrastructure to address them, and ensuring that the efforts of the IGBP core projects are carried out in a synergistic manner. This will enable scientists from the natural and related social sciences and from more than eighty countries to collaborate in an efficient and focused manner to advance, not only their disciplinary fields, but, more importantly, address systems-level global environmental change issues. The IGBP will also continue to develop new ways of communicating the results of its research to stakeholders outside the science community.