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

这个研讨会汇集了学者谁是做研究，涉及以团队为基础的，跨学科的，综合性的研究，重点是社会科学与自然科学和工程合作。其目的是探索从这种研究中吸取的经验教训，以产生一份最佳实践报告，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。研讨会探讨了什么可行，什么不可行以及为什么，以便让这些领导者参与如何最好地指导新兴综合科学家的问题，确定对实现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整合到可持续发展研究和教育中提供结构化指导。这些最佳实践是针对不同的受众，从NSF和其他资助项目的决策者到从事可持续发展项目的研究人员和教育专家。可持续发展科学包括无数的问题和过程，涉及自然世界和社会的各个方面。只有通过对这些现象的理解，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众多世界观和价值观。到目前为止，美洲还没有举行过任何会议来明确表达一个压倒性的呼吁，即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。为了实现可持续发展，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。解决办法既不纯粹是技术性的，也不纯粹是社会经济性的，而是需要汇集所有领域的最佳做法。这个研讨会是学习如何进行必要的集成的一步。

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.