Small Grant Program for the Human Dimensions SGP-HD

随着全球环境变化科学从全球范围到区域范围，从全球过程到细节和复杂性，从观测和建模到影响，其重点越来越多地放在适应，缓解和风险评估的科学基础上。所有这些都是社会建构的。因此，对全球变化中人的方面进行科学分析，正成为全球变化生物物理调查的一个关键组成部分。 通过合作研究网络（CRN II），IAI建立了一个新的全球变化科学计划，主要侧重于生物物理研究。IAI董事会在CRN II内发展国际和跨学科科学方面发挥了积极作用，联系项目，启动区域和专题合作，并朝着更平衡的跨学科科学方向发展。加强CRN II中的社会科学是IAI科学议程规定的任务，需要平衡的研究组合。这项新的资助计划将建立在CRN II创建的强大的跨学科网络基础上，旨在加强IAI科学议程的主题IV，人的因素和政策影响。该计划旨在与CRN II一起开发强大的人体尺寸研究，特别强调复杂和动态耦合的人体和生物物理系统。 该活动的具体智力价值在于，人文因素小额赠款计划不仅要求人文因素项目具有自己的学科重点，而且将广泛的人文科学作为CRN II下新一代自然科学项目的组成部分。人文科学与资助的CRN II项目的真正整合不仅将为当前的CRN II研究提供新的方向，而且将为全球变化科学提供新的方向。人体尺寸研究在很大程度上是在与自然科学研究相同的学科重点中进行的。在现有的CRN II网络的主题基础上，一个总体主题是“社会生态系统对全球变化的脆弱性和适应性”，这将为真正综合研究城市中心城市化、农村转型和可持续性、适应性和全球环境变化的体制方面、人类健康或脆弱地区和社区的管理等人类层面领域提供机会。专题优先事项将是对人的方面的研究，研究的主题预计将与已批准的CRN II项目产生协同作用，并解决当前和未来社会生态系统对GEC的脆弱性和适应性。 预计将第二个气候变化网络与这一新的努力结合起来，将大大提高处理全球环境变化问题及其在美洲的社会和经济原因和影响的区域能力，从而产生更广泛的影响。综合办法将提供健全的科学认识，以支持该区域的可持续发展和适应全球变化。正如CRN II方案所强调的那样，主要的挑战将是为记录、理解和预测地球生命支持系统的变化提供尽可能好的科学基础，并促进在关于适应或减缓的可能反应战略的政策和决策中充分利用科学信息。

As Global Environmental Change Science moves from a global scale to the regional, from global process to detail and complexity, and from observation and modeling to impact, its emphasis is increasingly on the scientific foundations of adaptation, mitigation and the assessments of risk. All these are socially constructed. The scientific analysis of the human dimensions of global change is therefore becoming a crucial component of the biophysical investigation of global change. With the collaborative research networks (CRN II) the IAI has established a new global change science program which is largely focused on biophysical research. The IAI Directorate has taken an active role in developing international and interdisciplinary science within CRN II by linking projects, initiating regional and topical cooperation and moving towards a more balanced interdisciplinary science. Strengthening the social sciences in CRN II is a task prescribed by the IAI's science agenda and its need for a balanced research portfolio. This new grant program will build on the strong interdisciplinary networks created in CRN II and is designed to strengthen Theme IV, Human Dimensions and Policy Implications, of the IAI Science Agenda. The program is to develop a strong human dimensions research in conjunction with CRN II with specific emphasis on complex and dynamic coupled human and biophysical systems. The specific intellectual merit of the activity is that the Small Grants Program for the Human Dimensions does not only call for human dimensions projects with their own disciplinary focus, but integrates a broad range of human science as an integral part of the new generation of natural science projects under CRN II. A genuine integration of the human sciences with funded CRN II projects will provide new directions not only in current CRN II research but in global change science. Human dimensions research has largely been conducted in much the same disciplinary focus as the natural science research. On the basis of the topics of existing CRN II networks, an overarching theme of 'vulnerability and adaptability of socio-ecological systems to global change' will provide opportunities for truly integrated research on human dimensions areas such as urban centers & urbanization, rural transformation and sustainability, institutional dimensions of adaptation and Global Environmental Change (GEC), human health or management of vulnerable zones and communities. The thematic priority will be on human dimensions research for topics with which synergies are expected with approved CRN II projects and that address current and future vulnerability and adaptability of socio-ecological systems to GEC. The combination of CRN II with this new effort is expected to provide broader impacts by significantly enhancing the regional capacity to deal with global environmental change issues and their social and economic causes and effects in the Americas. The integrative approach will provide sound scientific understanding in support of sustainable development and adaptation to global change in the region. The major challenge, as highlighted in the CRN II program, will be to provide the best possible scientific basis for documenting, understanding and projecting changes in the Earth's life-support system and to facilitate full use of scientific information in policy and decision making on possible response strategies for adaptation or mitigation.