National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center

国家社会环境综合中心

• 批准号: 1052875
• 负责人: Margaret Palmer
• 金额: $ 2750万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1052875&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Socio; Environmental; Synthesis; Center

This award establishes a new environmental synthesis center that will stimulate research, education, and outreach at the interface of the natural and social sciences in order to develop novel and effective solutions to global environmental challenges. The center's founding plan requires mutual engagement of social and natural scientists in a facilitated process that leads to joint refinement of synthesis projects and the framing of questions that transcend disciplinary boundaries. This plan is grounded in four key goals: the creation of new coalitions; learning at all levels; expansion and improvement of the synthesis process; and creation of a flexible, adaptive institution. These goals will be achieved through community-driven activities that encourage diverse methods of collaboration including distributed interactions, the use of social media to consolidate collective knowledge from a broad constituency, data visualization, and design charrettes. Through engagement of multiple disciplines in innovative activities, the center promises a fundamental reorganization in how synthesis is accomplished and put into practice. The Center will advance environmental synthesis science by combining diverse perspectives - those from basic research, public policy, science translation, and education. Policy scholars from Resources for the Future, along with policy makers, natural resource managers, and scientists from governmental agencies, will be integral to all center activities. The center presents an unprecedented opportunity to build capacity and broaden participation by advocating synthesis as a process that includes learning at all levels. Students will be trained in the skills needed to carry out synthesis and engaged directly in the synthesis process, with particular focus on hearing- and physically-impaired students, inner-city urban students, non-traditional students, and ethnic minorities. A key aspect of the center's vision is to advance the process of synthesis itself. Through continual evaluation and assessment of center activities and products, and adjustments to center philosophy and management in response to this evaluation, the center will function as a laboratory to facilitate learning about and improving the process of synthesis.

该奖项建立了一个新的环境综合中心，该中心将在自然和社会科学的界面上刺激研究，教育和外展，以开发出针对全球环境挑战的新颖有效的解决方案。该中心的创始计划要求社会和自然科学家在一个促进的过程中相互参与，从而导致综合项目的共同改进以及超越学科界限的问题的框架。该计划以四个关键目标为基础：建立新联盟；各级学习；综合过程的扩展和改进；并创建灵活的自适应机构。这些目标将通过社区驱动的活动来实现，这些活动鼓励各种协作方法，包括分布式互动，使用社交媒体来巩固广泛选区，数据可视化和设计Charrettes的集体知识。通过将多个学科的参与参与创新活动，该中心承诺在合成如何完成和实践中进行基本重组。 该中心将通过结合各种观点 - 基础研究，公共政策，科学翻译和教育的观点来推进环境综合科学。未来资源的政策学者，政策制定者，自然资源经理和政府机构的科学家将是所有中心活动不可或缺的一部分。该中心为建立合成作为一个包括各个级别的学习的过程，为建立能力和扩大参与提供了前所未有的机会。学生将接受培训的培训，以进行综合并直接参与综合过程，尤其专注于听力和身体受损的学生，城市内城市学生，非传统学生和少数民族。中心愿景的一个关键方面是推进合成本身的过程。通过对中心活动和产品的持续评估和评估，以及对中心哲学和管理的调整，以响应该评估，该中心将充当实验室，以促进学习和改善合成过程。