US-Jordan Workshop:Understanding coupled natural-human systems for development: Community based rangeland rehabilitation in the Badia region of Jordan, Amman, August 2010

1042568 Hutchinson这个项目是为了支持一个美国-约旦研讨会：了解以发展为目的的自然-人类耦合系统——2010年8月，约旦安曼，约旦巴迪亚地区以社区为基础的牧场恢复。约旦合作者是约旦安曼巴迪亚研究发展中心的Mohammad Shahbaz博士。知识价值：研讨会将重点关注耦合的社会生态过程和系统，直接解决近年来对这一主题的新兴趣。人类与自然系统耦合（CHANS）方法被用于研究约旦哈希姆王国的Badia地区，该地区的牧场在过去一个世纪中已经退化。CHANS是研究这一复杂社会生态系统的一个合适的概念模型。参与者计划使用E. Ostrom在2009年开发的SES/CHANS模型来提供一个通用框架。他们计划使用一个网站来准备研讨会，并继续未来的合作。与会者将运用奥斯特罗姆框架来理解和指导约旦干旱牧场管理的政策制定。PI指出了以前努力的缺点和可以从中吸取的教训。PI计划将一群自然和社会科学家聚集在一起，他们的互动可能会产生新的见解，从而可能在巴迪亚等半干旱地区建立更成功和可持续的资源管理系统。这次研讨会的成果将在美国科学家和约旦科学家之间进行真正的智力交流。更广泛的影响：该研讨会可能对妇女和代表性不足的群体成员参与科学产生强烈的积极影响，特别是考虑到来自美国和约旦的女科学家被纳入其中。美国青年教师和两名研究生也将参加。该项目具有巨大的潜力，可以为研究中的这种不稳定环境中的粮食安全问题作出重大贡献。有可能提供有益的文化交流以及协助环境管理的一些新数据。从这个提议的讲习班中产生的研究应该是对奥斯特罗姆框架的一个很好的测试，并对一个关键领域的紧张资源的管理产生有益的影响。研讨会的目标是制定一个研究和发展计划。当地居民参与讲习班是一个好主意。

1042568 Hutchinson This project is to support a U.S.-Jordan workshop: Understanding coupled natural-human systems for purposes of development-Community based rangeland rehabilitation in the Badia region of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, August 2010. The Jordanian collaborator is Dr. Mohammad Shahbaz of the Badia Research Development in Amman, Jordan. Intellectual merit: The workshop will focus on coupled social-ecological processes and systems, directly addressing renewed interest in this topic in recent years. The Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) approach is used to study the Badia Region of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, where rangelands have been degraded over the past century. The CHANS is an appropriate conceptual model to study this complex social-ecological system. The participants plan to use a SES/CHANS model developedby E. Ostrom in 2009 to provide a common framework. They plan to use a website to prepare the workshop and continue future collaboration. The participants wills apply the Ostrom framework to understand and guide policy development for management of arid rangelands in Jordan. The PI makes note of the shortcomings of previous efforts and the lessons that can be learned from them. The PI plan to bring together a group of natural and social scientists whose interaction may lead to new insights that might result in more successful and sustainable resource management systems in semi-arid zones like the Badia. The results from this workshop will have true intellectual engagement between U.S. Scientists and the scientists from Jordan. Broader Impacts: The workshop could have strong positive impacts on the participation of women and members of underrepresented groups in science, especially given the inclusion of women scientists from the US and Jordan. US junior faculty and two graduate students will also participate. The project has great potential to contribute significantly to issues of food security in precarious environments such as the one under study. There is the potential to provide a useful cultural exchange as well as some new data to assist in environmental management. Research stemming from this proposed workshop should provide a good test of the Ostrom framework, as well as having beneficial effects on the management of a stressed resource in a critical area. The workshop goals are to develop both a research as well as a development program. The participation of local population in workshop is a good idea.