IAI Training Institutes to Develop Capacity in Interdisciplinary Global Environmental Change Sciences

这笔赠款为四个跨学科全球环境变化科学培训机构提供支助，并促进美洲科学家和决策者之间的合作。培训活动涉及具有政策和社会相关性的区域重要全球变化主题，发展美洲专业人员和机构网络，并与IAI合作研究网络（CRN-II）和小额赠款方案/人的方面（SGP/HD）相结合。- 管理半干旱流域培训研究所：索弗朗西斯科河流域水资源的多种利用（与伯南布哥联邦大学和卡诺阿-德托尔达（一个非政府组织）联合举办，地点在巴西普罗普里和圣弗兰西斯科河沿岸）;自由和开放地获取和使用数据和信息（在拉丁美洲和加勒比湿热带水中心（拉丁美洲和加勒比湿热带水中心，巴拿马巴拿马城））;趋势和挑战（与世界保护联盟-自然保护联盟联合举办，圣何塞，哥斯达黎加）;城市应对气候变化培训研究所（暂定于拉丁美洲和加勒比经济委员会-拉加经委会，智利圣地亚哥）。每个培训机构将有20-25名来自美洲的自然和社会科学家、学生、决策者、环境从业人员和其他利益攸关方参加，按专业知识、性别、参与者类型和地理区域平衡。研究所将持续1-2周，包括讲座、讨论、案例研究、工作组、实地考察、实践、实验室和实践练习、提案制定、报告制作、公开发布和出版物。将建立一个网站，广泛提供关于培训活动的内容、规划和结果的信息。将为每项培训活动编写一份报告，介绍参与者、讲师、辅助材料以及主要讨论、结果和建议的摘要。

This grant provides support for four training institutes in interdisciplinary global environmental change sciences and for fostering collaboration between scientists and decision-makers in the Americas. Training activities address regionally important global change themes with policy and societal relevance, develop networks of professionals and institutions in the Americas, and integrate with the IAI Collaborative Research Networks (CRN-II) and the Small Grant Program/Human Dimensions (SGP/HD). The institutes have the following themes and locations: - Training Institute on Managing Semi-arid River Basins: Multiple Use of Water Resources of the So Francisco River Basin (joint with Federal University of Pernambuco and Canoa de Tolda (an NGO), in Propri and on the Sao Fransisco River, Brazil); - Training Institute on Information Management: free and open access to, and use of data and information (at the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC, Panama City, Panama); - Training Institute on Risk -Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Latin America: Trends and Challenges (joint with the World Conservation Union- IUCN, San Jose, Costa Rica); - Training Institute on Cities Responses to Climate Change (tentatively scheduled at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean- ECLAC, Santiago, Chile). Each Training Institute will involve 20-25 natural and social scientists, students, policy makers, environmental practitioners, and other stakeholders from the Americas, balanced by expertise, gender, type of participant, and geographic area. Institutes will be 1-2 weeks long and will include lectures, discussions, case studies, working groups, field trip, hands-on, laboratory and practical exercises, proposal development, and the production of reports, public releases and publications. A website will make information on the content, planning and results of the training activities widely available. A report will be prepared for each training activity with a description of participants, lecturers; support material; and a sum of major discussions, results and recommendations.