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，将促进自然科学和社会科学之间的研究、教育和推广，以开发新的和有效的解决全球环境挑战的方案。该中心的创建计划需要社会科学家和自然科学家共同参与一个促进的过程，从而共同完善合成项目，并提出超越学科界限的问题。该计划以四个关键目标为基础：建立新的联盟；各级学习；扩大和改进综合进程；以及创建一个灵活、适应能力强的机构。这些目标将通过社区驱动的活动来实现，这些活动鼓励多样化的协作方法，包括分布式互动、使用社交媒体来整合来自广泛受众的集体知识、数据可视化和设计图表。通过让多个学科参与创新活动，该中心承诺从根本上重组综合的完成和实施方式。该中心将结合基础研究、公共政策、科学翻译和教育等不同角度，推动环境综合科学的发展。来自未来资源中心的政策学者以及政策制定者、自然资源管理者和来自政府机构的科学家将成为中心所有活动不可或缺的一部分。该中心倡导将综合作为一个包括各级学习的过程，为建设能力和扩大参与提供了前所未有的机会。将对学生进行合成所需技能的培训，并直接参与合成过程，重点是听力和肢体残疾学生、市中心城市学生、非传统学生和少数民族。该中心愿景的一个关键方面是推进合成过程本身。通过对中心活动和产品的持续评估和评估，并根据评估调整中心的理念和管理，中心将发挥实验室的作用，促进对综合过程的了解和改进。