PASI: Human, Physical, and Natural Capital Investment in Patagonia: a Predictive Approach Under the Sustainability Criterion; Concepcion, Chile, January 2008

这项由美国国家科学基金会和能源部共同支持的泛美高级研究机构（PASI）奖将于2008年1月在智利康塞普西翁的康塞普西翁大学举行。 由爱达荷州大学的Peter Goodwin博士组织的PASI将通过比较美国哥伦比亚盆地的实例，解决巴塔哥尼亚地区应用可持续发展标准的挑战，意大利的Ombrone河流域和智利的BioBio河流域。 PASI将有三个主要研究目标：探索如何将可持续发展原则应用于传统的学科特定的研究和教育，特别是本PASI的水文学，生态学和环境工程学科，通过综合的跨学科计划，如环境观测站的科学计划;评估如何将美洲原住民的优先事项、理解和文化可持续性纳入环境观测站的科学计划;在联合国千年生态系统评估框架或类似框架的范围内整合当前的研究和教育计划。 该活动将为更广泛的学术界提供教育和研究机会，以研究不同政治、文化、地理和自然环境中的流域。 本PASI的预期成果将包括：开发跨学科框架和量化方法的经验，用于评估生态系统功能和服务，以指导经济发展;了解美洲原住民对北美和南美发展的看法;以及关注可能导致PASI参与者之间未来努力和新生合作的主要知识差距。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place January 2008 at the Universidad de Concepción in Concepción, Chile. Organized by Dr. Peter Goodwin of the University of Idaho, the PASI will address the challenges of applying sustainability criteria for the Patagonian region through comparison of example sites at the Columbia basin in the U.S., the Ombrone basin in Italy, and the BioBio river basin in Chile. The PASI will have three primary research objectives: Explore how sustainability principles can be implemented into traditional discipline-specific research and education, particularly the disciplines of hydrology, ecology, and environmental engineering for this PASI, through integrated interdisciplinary programs such as science plans for environmental observatories; evaluate how native American priorities, understanding, and cultural sustainability can be incorporated into science programs of environmental observatories; and integrate current research and educational programs within the context of the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Framework or similar frameworks. The activity will provide educational and research opportunities to the broader academic community to study watersheds in different political, cultural, geographic and physical settings. Expected outcomes in this PASI will include: experience in developing an interdisciplinary framework and quantitative methodology for the valuation of ecosystem functions and services that can guide economic development; understanding of Native American perspectives on development, both North and South American; and a focus on primary gaps in knowledge that may lead to future efforts and nascent collaborations between PASI participants.