Landscapes in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Human Connections

人类世的风景：探索人类的联系

• 批准号: 0952354
• 负责人: Anne Chin
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0952354&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Landscapes; Anthropocene; Exploring; Human; Connections

The workshop, "Landscapes in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Human Connections," will be held 4-6 March, 2010 at the University of Oregon. The workshop will provide an important venue for intellectual cross-fertilization among scientists from disparate disciplines who otherwise would have little opportunity to interact. It will also provide a mechanism to bridge the real and perceived gaps that exist across the natural and social-scientific divide. Overcoming such barriers will build the community necessary to forge scientific advances, to anticipate and mitigate the human-induced changes to Earth's surface, as well as to factor the changes that have already occurred into human decision processes. The proposed workshop will develop knew knowledge of integrated human-landscape systems, and will build capacity to predict the future of Earths surface under human influence. Two days of activities, comprising short research presentations, discussion, and breakout sessions, are planned to meet several specific objectives: identify key research questions and integrative linkages for cross-disciplinary research, examine theoretical and methodological approaches among disciplines, assess data availability and needs, and explore models and tools toward predicting complex human-landscape systems. The outcomes will include a white paper to be submitted to NSF, and summaries of the workshop to be potentially published in disciplinary and interdisciplinary newsletters, as well as in outlets for the public. The workshop is also expected to produce a multi-authored manuscript, in addition to specific integrated research projects that will be ready for launch by collaborative teams. It has become increasingly clear over the past several years that humans and the surface of the Earth are intertwined in a complex manner. Decisions that people make about building cities, damming rivers, and exploiting natural resources cause fundamental changes in the surrounding environment. In like manner, natural disasters, rising sea levels, and climate change have acute and chronic influences on the human economic and social fabric. This project will bring together researchers from the physical and social sciences to collaborate on methods for addressing these important issues, and prepare plans that will pave the way for future progess.

研讨会名为“人类世的景观：探索人类联系”，将于2010年3月4日至6日在俄勒冈大学举行。研讨会将为来自不同学科的科学家之间的智力交流提供一个重要场所，否则他们几乎没有机会互动。它还将提供一种机制，弥合跨越自然科学和社会科学鸿沟的实际和感知的差距。克服这些障碍将建立必要的社区，以推动科学进步，预测和减轻人类对地球表面造成的变化，并将已经发生的变化纳入人类的决策过程。拟议的讲习班将发展关于综合人类-景观系统的已知知识，并将建立在人类影响下预测地球表面未来的能力。计划进行为期两天的活动，包括简短的研究报告、讨论和分组会议，以实现几个具体目标：确定关键的研究问题和跨学科研究的综合联系，检查各学科之间的理论和方法方法，评估数据的可用性和需求，并探索预测复杂的人文景观系统的模型和工具。成果包括将提交给国家科学基金会的一份白皮书，以及可能在学科和跨学科通讯以及面向公众的媒体上发表的研讨会摘要。除了可供协作团队启动的具体综合研究项目外，预计讲习班还将制作一份多人撰写的手稿。在过去的几年里，越来越清楚的是，人类和地球表面以一种复杂的方式交织在一起。人们关于建造城市、筑坝河流和开发自然资源的决定会导致周围环境的根本性变化。同样，自然灾害、海平面上升和气候变化也会对人类经济和社会结构产生严重和长期的影响。该项目将把来自物理和社会科学的研究人员聚集在一起，就解决这些重要问题的方法进行合作，并制定计划，为未来的进展铺平道路。