DMUU: Center on Climate Decision Making

虽然几十年来，关于全球范围气候变化的许多层面的科学知识不断增加，但许多组织在应对不断变化的环境条件所带来的挑战方面准备不足。 决策所依据的信息是不完整的，有时甚至是错误的，而且用于制定、考虑、实施和评估决策的过程可能是不完整的或缺乏的。 这个分布式的跨学科合作小组将结合联合收割机的知识和研究方法，从行为和决策科学，工程和自然科学，以协助个人，企业，政府和国际社会，以更好地解决他们现在面临的许多困难的气候决策。 该组织的研究人员与大约10个不同的组织有联系。 它们将涉及一系列主题，包括关于减少能源系统二氧化碳排放的决定，与适应气候变化影响有关的决定，由于减少排放和适应变化之间的相互作用而产生的问题，以及处理意外快速或巨大的变化或影响。 在解决这些气候决策问题的同时，该小组的研究人员将努力确定现有理论和方法的局限性，并为社会，行为和决策科学中新框架，理论和方法的发展和传播做出根本性贡献。 为了确保这一更基本的工作以经常和系统的方式进行，该小组将定期召开理论和方法讲习班。 它将为一些与气候有关的关键决定提供指导和支持。 它将开发和展示先进的工具和方法，以支持改进决策，并向决策者以及政策和研究界传播这些新工具。 该集团将培养高素质的跨学科博士骨干。和史密斯未来将在该领域做出贡献的研究人员。 通过教师专业发展计划，该组织将为北美各地的大量高中生提供学习和利用该组织研究成果的机会。 这个合作小组项目由NSF社会，行为和经济科学理事会通过其不确定性下的决策（DMUU）竞争支持。

Although scientific knowledge about many dimensions of global-scale climatic change has been growing for a number of decades, many organizations are ill-prepared to address challenges posed by changing environmental conditions. Information upon which they base decisions is incomplete and sometimes erroneous, and the processes used to formulate, consider, implement, and evaluate decisions may be incomplete or lacking. This distributed interdisciplinary collaborative group will combine knowledge and research methods from behavioral and decision sciences, engineering, and natural science to assist individuals, corporations, governments, and the international community to better address many of the difficult climate decisions they now face. The group's researchers are associated with about 10 different organizations. They will address a range of topics, including decisions about reducing emissions of carbon dioxide from the energy system, decisions related to adapting to the impacts of climate change, issues that arise as a result of interactions between reducing emissions and adapting to change, and dealing with unexpectedly rapid or large changes or impacts. While addressing these climate decision problems, the group's investigators will work to identify limits to existing theory and methods and to make fundamental contributions to the development and dissemination of new frameworks, theory, and methods in the social, behavioral, and decision sciences. In order to assure that this more fundamental work occurs in a regular and systematic way, the group regularly will convene theory and methods workshops.The group's anticipated contributions are four-fold. It will provide guidance and support for a number of key climate-related decisions. It will develop and demonstrate advanced tools and methods to support improved decision making and disseminate those new tools to decision makers and to the policy and research communities. The group will educate a cadre of high-quality interdisciplinary Ph.D. and M.S. researchers who will make future contributions in the field. Through a Teacher Professional Development Program, the group will provide large numbers of high school students across North America with the opportunity to learn with, and make use of, materials derived from the group's research. This collaborative group project is supported by the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences through its Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU) competition.