Support for the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change

支持全球变化的人类层面委员会

• 批准号: 0908432
• 负责人: Meredith Lane
• 金额: $ 62.5万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0908432&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Committee; Human; Dimensions; Global

The scientific study of human-environment interactions is a coherent interdisciplinary research area that is related to but distinct from conventional environmental science. Research on environmental social and behavioral science seeks to integrate knowledge from the disciplines that focus on human action, cognition, and institutions with natural science knowledge to understand the human causes of environmental change; the human consequences of such change; and the ways in which individuals, organizations, and social institutions respond to the potential or actuality of environmental variation and change in pursuing their objectives. To facilitate research and community-development in the emerging field of human-environmental interaction, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences has operated a Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (CHDGC). This award will provide support for core operations of the CHDGC, including identification of issues needing research attention and overseeing studies on these topics; interactions with various federal agencies on issues requiring scientific analysis of human-environment interactions; contributions to international research programs addressing human-environment relationships; and organization of workshops and other ad hoc activities that enhance scientific contributions to understanding of human-environment interactions but that might not be requested by federal environment agencies.Continued support for the CHDGC will facilitate that group's functioning as the primary NRC committee that spans social and behavioral science fields and looks to involve leading researchers in those communities in studies of problems related to human-environmental interaction. This award will facilitate the conduct of one special workshop each year to examine specific topics, and it will enable the committee to examine topics that are not directly related to climate change but instead to other forms of human-natural system dynamics. Publications resulting from committee workshops and studies will continue to be major foundations for future work across a diverse set of fields. The research fostered by CHDGC activities will continue to directly address environmental topics of great public interest and concern. The results of committee workshops and studies will have benefits for land and resource managers as well as policy makers at all levels of government. The committee's work also will enhance interactions between social and behavioral scientists and natural scientists and engineers who already are active in environmental discussions, thereby enhancing the likelihood that more comprehensively framed and more integrated research activities will result in the future.

人与环境相互作用的科学研究是一个与传统环境科学既有联系又有区别的交叉学科研究领域。环境社会和行为科学的研究试图将专注于人类行为、认知和制度的学科的知识与自然科学知识相结合，以了解环境变化的人类原因；这种变化的人类后果；以及个人、组织和社会机构在追求其目标时对环境变化和变化的潜在或现实做出反应的方式。为了促进在人与环境相互作用这一新兴领域的研究和社区发展，美国国家科学院国家研究理事会设立了一个全球变化的人文层面委员会。该奖项将为CHDGC的核心业务提供支持，包括确定需要研究关注的问题并监督这些主题的研究；在需要对人与环境相互作用进行科学分析的问题上与不同的联邦机构进行互动；为解决人与环境关系的国际研究计划做出贡献；以及组织研讨会和其他特别活动，以增强对理解人与环境相互作用的科学贡献，但这可能不是联邦环境机构要求的。继续支持CHDGC将促进该组织作为横跨社会和行为科学领域的主要NRC委员会的运作，并希望让这些社区的领先研究人员参与与人与环境相互作用有关的问题的研究。这一奖项将促进每年举办一次特别讲习班，以审查具体专题，并使委员会能够审查与气候变化没有直接关系，而是与其他形式的人-自然系统动态有关的专题。委员会讲习班和研究产生的出版物将继续是今后在一系列不同领域开展工作的主要基础。由CHDGC活动推动的研究将继续直接涉及公众极感兴趣和关注的环境问题。委员会讲习班和研究的结果将使土地和资源管理者以及各级政府的政策制定者受益。该委员会的工作还将加强社会和行为科学家与已经活跃在环境讨论中的自然科学家和工程师之间的互动，从而增加未来更全面、更综合的研究活动产生的可能性。