RCN-SEES: Network for Utilization of Social Science Research on Sustainability and Energy (NUSSRoSE)

RCN-SEES：可持续发展和能源社会科学研究利用网络 (NUSSRoSE)

• 批准号: 1140174
• 负责人: Elke Weber
• 金额: $ 31.8万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-11-01 至 2014-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140174&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; SEES; Network; Utilization; Social

Climate change offers a unique challenge for human problem solving. Whereas evolution has equipped us to address immediate threats to life or limb, climate change is a slow-moving threat, largely understood through the eyes of climate scientists, who admit uncertainty in how quickly or slowly change will take place. It is not surprising that polling shows that even the US public persuaded by the science does not give this issue priority. Nevertheless, significant action is required now to contain a threat that may not fully manifest itself for decades. An increasingly rich body of work in a range of behavioral sciences - including cognitive and social psychology, anthropology, behavioral economics and sociology - is examining human cognition and motivation and gaining insights about decision processes. This research may hold the key to building constituencies for addressing climate change and for motivating behavioral change. However, its results are largely confined to academic literature, and locked, for the most part, in stylized language that is not always accessible to the many non-governmental organizations, businesses and others who would benefit from its insights. Our Research Coordination Network (RCN) is designed to make the insights gained from this work more accessible to practitioners. Work now underway and anticipated will provide insights into alternative ways to address climate challenge and its unique demand for upfront investments to deliver benefits that are by necessity uncertain and far into the future, accruing to future generations and to geographically distant regions. The network will act as a market maker, using physical and virtual meetings and a software platform to create a forum for the integration and sharing of theory, results, and experience (a) across disciplinary lines, to stimulate robust cross-fertilization, additional research, cross-training of postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members, and (b) between the academic supply side and the practitioner demand side building better two-way communication between these two communities. Our RCN will help build a multi- or trans-disciplinary sub-specialty that will raise the status, profile and reach of individual efforts as well as create awareness for the need of institutional support to maintain and use research output of this sort, attracting more creative minds into the effort, including young researchers. Equally important, the RCN will find systematic ways for dissemination and to connect research to application. It will do so in part by integrating into this platform approach the knowledge and needs of the non-governmental world and of government policy-makers.

气候变化对人类解决问题提出了独特的挑战。进化使我们有能力解决对生命或肢体的直接威胁，但气候变化是一个缓慢发展的威胁，很大程度上是通过气候科学家的眼睛来理解的，他们承认变化发生的速度或速度存在不确定性。毫不奇怪，民意调查显示，即使是被科学说服的美国公众也没有优先考虑这个问题。然而，现在需要采取重大行动，遏制一种可能在几十年内不会完全显现的威胁。在一系列行为科学领域，包括认知和社会心理学、人类学、行为经济学和社会学，越来越多的工作正在研究人类的认知和动机，并获得有关决策过程的见解。这项研究可能是建立应对气候变化和激励行为改变的支持者的关键。然而，其成果在很大程度上局限于学术文献，而且在很大程度上局限于程式化的语言，而许多非政府组织、企业和其他可能受益于其见解的人并不总是能够理解这些语言。我们的研究协调网络（RCN）旨在使从业者更容易获得从这项工作中获得的见解。目前正在进行和预期中的工作将为应对气候挑战的替代方法及其对前期投资的独特需求提供见解，以提供必然不确定和遥远未来的利益，为子孙后代和地理上遥远的地区积累利益。该网络将发挥市场创造者的作用，利用实际和虚拟会议以及软件平台，为整合和分享理论、成果和经验创建一个论坛：（a）跨学科，促进强大的交叉培养、额外研究、博士后研究员和初级教员的交叉培训，（B）在学术供给方和实践需求方之间建立更好的双向沟通。我们的RCN将帮助建立一个多学科或跨学科的子专业，这将提高个人努力的地位，形象和影响力，并提高对机构支持的需要的认识，以维护和使用这种研究成果，吸引更多的创造性思维，包括年轻的研究人员。同样重要的是，RCN将找到系统的传播方法，并将研究与应用联系起来。它将在一定程度上通过将非政府组织和政府决策者的知识和需要纳入这一平台办法来做到这一点。