RCN-SEES: Advancing our social and environmentalunderstanding of complex mountain landscapes and their vulnerability to environmental change

RCN-SEES：增进我们对复杂山地景观及其对环境变化的脆弱性的社会和环境理解

• 批准号: 1231233
• 负责人: Lilian Alessa
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Idaho
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1231233&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; SEES; Advancing; our; social

This project will establish a Research Coordination Network (RCN) to develop national and international research collaborations and partnerships to address the overarching question of how to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems in complex mountain landscapes. The Northern Rockies region of the United States contains the largest undeveloped landscapes in the contiguous United States. However, this region is undergoing rapid growth in human populations through both urbanization and ex-urbanization. As is typical of mountain-valley environments throughout the world, this region is a complex coupled natural-human system: a set of landscapes characterized by dramatic ecological and climatic changes and socioeconomic transitions. This effort leverages a core group from the University of Idaho, Washington State University, University of Montana and the United States Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station to coordinate research planning for informing decision processes and sustainable management of forest and water resources in complex mountain landscapes. The research network for this region will be a partnership of academic institutions, state, and federal agencies, Native American tribes, and non-governmental organizations. An important goal of this RCN is to effectively network multiple sources of knowledge on how ecosystems function in complex mountain landscapes for the purpose of improving social and ecological resilience and sustainability of their natural resources and ecosystem services. The work will first demonstrate this process in the Northern Rockies region encompassing Idaho, eastern Washington, western Montana, Wyoming, and southwestern mountain regions of Canada. Subsequent work will extend the model to other complex mountain landscapes nationally and internationally. Extension of the regional model internationally will be facilitated through collaborations and partnerships developed with researchers and organizations in eleven countries throughout Europe, North and South America and through the International Long Term Ecological Research Network. This project will have substantial broader impacts on local stakeholders and land managers through activities that build and expand partnerships with public, Native American, and private institutions of education and through outreach to inform decision making and governance that improves social and ecological resilience. Education programs will range from creating national and international graduate student associations to curriculum development, with a primary objective being to increase involvement of individuals from underrepresented groups. Annual meetings, national and international workshops, and modern communication capabilities will facilitate exchanges that incorporate findings across local to international boundaries.

该项目将建立一个研究协调网络，以发展国家和国际研究合作和伙伴关系，解决如何减少复杂山区景观中自然和人类系统脆弱性的首要问题。美国的北方落基山脉地区拥有美国本土最大的未开发景观。 然而，由于城市化和前城市化，该区域的人口正在迅速增长。正如世界各地典型的山谷环境一样，该地区是一个复杂的自然-人类耦合系统：一系列以剧烈的生态和气候变化以及社会经济转型为特征的景观。这项工作利用来自爱达荷州大学、华盛顿州立大学、蒙大拿大学和美国林务局落基山研究站的一个核心小组，协调研究规划，为复杂山区景观的森林和水资源的决策过程和可持续管理提供信息。该地区的研究网络将是学术机构、州和联邦机构、美洲土著部落和非政府组织的伙伴关系。该区域网络的一个重要目标是有效地将关于生态系统如何在复杂的山区景观中发挥作用的多种知识来源联网，以提高社会和生态复原力以及自然资源和生态系统服务的可持续性。这项工作将首先在北方落基山脉地区，包括爱达荷州，东部华盛顿，蒙大拿州西部，怀俄明州，加拿大西南部山区演示这一过程。随后的工作将把这一模式推广到国内和国际上其他复杂的山区景观。将通过与欧洲、北美和南美11个国家的研究人员和组织建立合作和伙伴关系，并通过国际长期生态研究网络，促进区域模式在国际上的推广。该项目将通过建立和扩大与公共、美洲原住民和私人教育机构的合作伙伴关系的活动，以及通过外展为决策和治理提供信息，从而提高社会和生态复原力，对当地利益相关者和土地管理者产生更广泛的影响。教育计划的范围将从创建国家和国际研究生协会到课程开发，其主要目标是增加代表性不足群体的个人参与。年度会议、国家和国际讲习班以及现代通信能力将促进交流，将研究结果纳入地方和国际范围。