Collaborative Research:Workshop on Best Practices for Intergrating the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences for Sustainability Research and Education

这次研讨会汇集了正在进行研究的学者，这些研究涉及以社会科学为重点的团队、跨学科、综合研究，并与自然科学和工程学合作。其目的是探索从此类研究中吸取的经验教训，以编写一份将社会科学与生物物理科学、数学和工程学结合起来促进可持续发展科学的最佳做法报告。研讨会探讨了什么管用、什么不管用以及为什么，以便让这些领导者参与如何最好地指导新兴的综合科学家、确定对促进综合可持续发展科学至关重要的关键技术，并就如何将社会科学纳入可持续发展研究和教育提供结构化指导。这些最佳实践面向不同的受众，从NSF和其他资助项目决策者到从事可持续发展项目的研究人员和教育专家。可持续发展科学涵盖了涉及自然世界及其社会的不同方面的无数问题和过程。只有通过对后一种现象的理解，才能得出可能的解决方案。此外，可持续发展科学的方法必须解决构成我们目前面临的许多挑战的根源的多种世界观和价值观。到目前为止，美洲还没有举行过一次会议，以明确阐述已成为压倒一切的呼吁，找到有效和有力的方法，将社会科学和对社会动态的理解纳入可持续发展科学。为了实现可持续性，决策者必须学会整合自然科学、工程学和社会科学的知识和方法。解决办法既不是纯粹的技术解决方案，也不是纯粹的社会经济解决方案，而是汇集所有领域的最佳做法。本研讨会是向学习如何进行必要的集成迈出的一步。

This workshop brings together scholars who are doing research that involves team-based, interdisciplinary, integrative research focused on the social sciences in collaboration with natural sciences and engineering. The purpose is to explore lessons learned from such research toward producing a report of best practices for integrating the social sciences with the biophysical sciences, mathematics, and engineering for sustainability science. The workshop explores what works, what doesn't work and why in order to engage these leaders in questions of how to best mentor emerging integrative scientists, to identify the key technologies which are critical to enabling integrative sustainability science and to provide structured guidance on how to integrate the social sciences in sustainability research and education. These best practices are directed at diverse audiences ranging from NSF and other funding program decision makers to researchers and education experts engaged in sustainability programs.Sustainability science encompasses a myriad range of issues and processes that involve diverse aspects of the natural world and the societies that are part of it. It is only through an understanding of these latter phenomena that likely solutions will be derived. Moreover, the approaches to sustainability science have to address the multitude of worldviews and values that comprise the roots of the many challenges we currently face. To date, no meeting has occurred in the Americas to clearly articulate what has become an overwhelming call to find effective and powerful ways to incorporate the social sciences, and an understanding of social dynamics, into sustainability science. To achieve sustainability, decision makers must learn to integrate knowledge and methods from the natural sciences, engineering, and the social sciences. Solutions are neither purely technical nor socio-economic, but involve bringing together best practices from all fields. This workshop is a step toward learning how to do the necessary integration.