SGER: Collaborative Research: Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Sustainability Science Research

SGER：协作研究：绘制可持续发展科学研究的结构和演变

• 批准号: 0831644
• 负责人: Luis Bettencourt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0831644&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Collaborative; Research; Mapping; Structure

CBET-0831644Luis Bettencourt, Santa Fe InstituteA new field of Sustainability Science and Engineering is emerging that seeks to understand the fundamental character of interactions between nature and human society and to help steer the impact of humanity's needs on the planet's natural resources towards sustainable trajectories. Sustainability Science and Engineering is unified in clear terms by its ultimate goals but occupies an interdisciplinary position among traditional research fields, spanning both science and engineering and spreading across disciplines as diverse as agriculture, ecology, oceanography, climate studies, economics, a diverse set of social sciences, energy and materials and several additional aspects of engineering, physics, biology, and chemistry. Although Sustainability Science and engineering is by now widely discussed in the scientific and engineering community, and is beginning to be connected to the political agenda for economic and social development, it remains unclear to what extent its many facets are being integrated into a global perspective and whether researchers are utilizing it as a nexus to collaborate across traditional scientific and engineering fields. This project will address such issues by delineating, analyzing, and mapping both basic research on sustainability. Specifically, a comprehensive dataset of scholarly publications, patents, research grants, policy documents and popular science pieces that together define the integrated knowledge of the field will be compiled. Analysis results will be presented as tables, graphs, and in form of geospatial and science maps. Sustainability experts will be invited to interpret these results. Findings will be presented, discussed, and disseminated via scholarly publications, online, and at a workshop on the topic of sustainability. Encouraging timely scientific and engineering progress across a large set of traditional disciplines requires generating a global perspective (a view 'from above') to determine the most effective actions and incentives to be created by governments, funding agencies, non-governmental organizations, the scientific community, and the public at large. This work will map the current state of sustainability science and engineering worldwide and provide actionable insights into its future development. The resulting maps will be useful for communicating the state of the art as well as to point out challenges and opportunities. They might be extended and adopted as a visual interface into research and practice of Sustainability Science and Engineering. Several graduate students will be involved and trained in this project.

CBET-0831644LUIS BETTENCOURT，SANTAFE Institutea新的可持续性科学和工程领域的新领域正在出现，试图了解自然与人类社会之间互动的基本特征，并帮助引导人类需求对地球自然资源的影响到可持续发展轨迹。可持续性科学与工程学以其最终目标清晰地统一，但在传统研究领域之间占据了跨学科的地位，跨越了科学和工程，并在像农业，生态学，海洋学，气候研究，经济学，经济学，社会科学，能源和材料，能源和材料以及工程学，物理学，生物学，化学，化学，化学，化学和化学的其他几个方面相同的学科中传播。尽管现在在科学和工程社区中广泛讨论了可持续性科学和工程，并且开始与经济和社会发展的政治议程联系在一起，但尚不清楚其许多方面在多大程度上纳入了全球视角，并且研究人员是否将其用作跨传统科学和工程领域的Nexus。该项目将通过描述，分析和绘制有关可持续性的基础研究来解决此类问题。具体而言，将汇总一个全面的学术出版物，专利，研究赠款，政策文件和流行科学文章的数据集，共同定义了该领域的综合知识。分析结果将以表格，图表以及地理空间和科学图的形式呈现。可持续性专家将被邀请解释这些结果。通过学术出版物，在线和关于可持续性主题的研讨会，将介绍，讨论和传播发现。鼓励及时的科学和工程进步在大量传统学科中，需要产生全球观点（“从上方”看法），以确定由政府，资助机构，非政府组织，科学界和整个公众创造的最有​​效的行动和激励措施。这项工作将绘制全球可持续性科学和工程的现状，并为其未来发展提供可行的见解。由此产生的地图对于传达最新技术以及指出挑战和机遇将很有用。它们可能被扩展并通过作为可持续性科学和工程研究和实践的视觉接口。几位研究生将参与和培训该项目。