U.S.-Mexico Planning Workshop: International Collaboration to Advance Sustainability Science in the U.S. and Mexico

在这个国际规划研讨会上，来自美国和墨西哥的研究人员将促进亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）和墨西哥国立自治大学（UNAM）之间基于可持续发展科学的新研究合作。 这一新的合作将通过由墨西哥国立自治大学主办的全体规划会议启动，来自两个机构的30名科学家将制定一个概念框架，作为向国家科学基金会和区域资助机构提出研究建议的共同基础。 将与墨西哥的主要决策者协商，以确定研究的重点问题领域。 从这种合作中产生的研究预计将是创新的思想和概念，以影响具体的资源管理问题，现在看来棘手的，和变革的结构和过程中的跨界合作，以及在对决策结果和规划的预期影响。预计将为地球仪的其他研究举措提供一个可复制的结构和方法。 墨西哥和美国期货的相互依赖性为这一奋进增添了额外的重要性。 亚利桑那州立大学的研究人员将主要与墨西哥国立自治大学生态研究所（所长是Dominguez Pérez-Tejada博士）的同行进行交流，通过资助的活动，将与学术界以外对项目成果感兴趣的主要利益攸关方共同制定一个研究议程。主要的好处是建立了研究伙伴关系，解决复杂的可持续性问题。 该项目不仅将提供新的科学见解，而且还将有助于制定新的决策支持工具，帮助地方和国家各级的管理人员和决策者。该计划将涉及美国和墨西哥的早期职业学者，使他们能够在尖端的国际研究议程和知识网络中建立自己。亚利桑那州立大学在地理位置和制度上都很好地支持了这一奋进。 通过协调这一合作与美国国际开发署在可持续发展科学课程和教育方面的持续赠款，这两个机构的研究生将参与研究议程的制定，并利用可持续发展科学教育中的补充教学工作。 青年研究人员参与国际研究是OISE的一个主要目标。

In this international planning workshop, researchers from the U.S. and Mexico will catalyze a new research collaboration based in sustainability science between Arizona State University (ASU) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). This new collaboration will be initiated through a plenary planning session hosted by UNAM and attended by 30 scientists from both institutions, who will develop a conceptual framework that will serve as the common basis for research proposals to NSF and regional funding agencies. Key policy decision-makers in Mexico will be consulted to define the focal problem domains of the studies. The research that emerges from this collaboration is expected to be innovative in terms of the ideas and concepts brought to bear on specific resource management problems that now appear intractable, and transformative in the structure and process of the cross-border collaboration as well as in the intended impacts on decision-outcomes and planning. A replicable structure and approach is expected to be provided as an example for other research initiatives around the globe. The interdependency of Mexican and US futures adds additional salience to this endeavor. The ASU researchers will interface primarily with UNAM counterparts in the Institute of Ecology, whose Director is Dr. Dominguez Pérez-Tejada.The funded activities will result in a research agenda formulated together with key stakeholders from outside the academic community who have a strong interest in the projects' results. The primary benefit is the establishment of a research partnership addressing complex sustainability problems. The project will not only contribute new scientific insights, but also enable the formulation of new decision support tools that will aid managers and policy makers at both local and national levels. The initiative will involve early career scholars in both US and Mexico and will enable them to establish themselves within a cutting-edge international research agenda and intellectual network. Arizona State University is well placed geographically and institutionally to support this endeavor. By coordinating this collaboration with an ongoing grant in sustainability science curriculum and education from US AID, graduate students from both institutions will be involved in the development of the research agenda and leverage complementary pedagogical work in sustainability science education. Involvement of junior researchers in international research is a major goal of OISE.