RCN - SEES Global Long-term Human Ecodynamics Research Coordination Network: Assessing Sustainability on the Millennial Scale

这项研究协调网络基金汇集了一个由科学家和教育工作者组成的国际多学科团队，以更好地调动世纪至千年尺度的长期人类生态动力学案例，帮助国家和全球努力制定有效的未来可持续发展，并为可持续发展教育（ESD）创造资源。该RCN项目将开发一个合作研究网络，以确定允许人们在千年尺度上与环境发展可持续关系或导致不可持续结果的条件。这一建议借鉴了人们的广泛认识，即代际可持续性教育工作和为适应性管理制定长期环境政策的工作由于观察时间短、案例池有限和学科的“烟囱管道”而无法发挥作用。该RCN将通过三个相互关联的工作团队，促进跨学科千禧一代视角的发展，以实现真正可持续的未来；1)通过系统的区域间比较代表长期人类生态动力学实验的案例，建立长期可持续性调查的能力；受气候变化、多代人类影响和区域间联系影响的耦合自然和人类系统；2)通过共同的数据管理、数字传播和可视化工具建立网络基础设施支持，帮助可持续发展研究人员并与可持续发展教育工作者建立联系；3)通过数字技术的创新应用，与教育专业人士建立直接联系，以及让地方社区积极参与可持续发展科学与教育，加强地方和国家在可持续发展教育和社区参与全球变化科学方面的举措。

This Research Coordination Network grant brings together and international, multi-disciplinary team of scientists and educators to better mobilize cases of long term human ecodynamics on the century to millennial scale to aid national and global efforts to develop effective future sustainable development and to create resources for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This RCN project will develop a collaborative research network that will identify conditions that allow people to develop sustainable relationships with the environment over the millennial scale or have led to unsustainable outcomes. This proposal draws upon widespread recognition that inter-generational sustainability education efforts and formulation of long-term environmental policy for adaptive management are ill served by short observational spans, restricted case pools, and disciplinary stove-piping. This RCN will promote development of a transdisciplinary millennial scale perspective for a genuinely sustainable future through three interlinked working teams; 1) building capacity in long-term sustainability investigations through systematic inter-regional comparison of cases representing long-term human ecodynamics ?experiments? of coupled natural and human systems impacted by climate change, multi-generational human impact, and inter-regional connection; 2) building cyberinfrastructure support through common data management, digital dissemination and visualization tools that both aid sustainability researchers and connect with sustainability educators; 3) Enhancing local and national initiatives in sustainability education and community involvement in global change science by innovative application of digital technology and creating direct links with education professionals and involving active local community participation in sustainability science & education.