Core Support for the NRC Geographical Sciences Committee

国家研究理事会(NRC)于1997年设立了地理科学委员会(GSC)，因为以空间和地点为基础的人类-环境科学方法已证明其在解决重大社会和环境专题方面日益重要。这一奖项重申了对GSC的核心支持，GSC的使命是：(1)将地理科学的理论和观点应用于社会问题；(2)通过与其他国家地理组织的联络和发起这些组织之间的合作研究计划来促进国际合作；(3)在与地理有关的所有问题上向国家科学院(NAS)提供建议，特别是在涉及国际组织、方案和研究的问题上向NAS外交秘书提供建议；以及(4)作为美国与国际地理联盟(IGU)的官方联络人，促进和便利美国地理学家参与IGU。GSC通过开展专题研究和举行会议来开展工作。全球地理科学委员会将确定符合地理科学界需要的研究主题，并将题为“未来十年地理科学的战略方向”的2010年国家地理委员会报告的建议纳入全球地理科学委员会议程。GSC将通过确定与健康有关的研究轨迹、全球气候变化的人文因素以及全球经济衰退在美国社会重组中的作用来解决这两个问题。继续支持GSC将使该小组能够通过圆桌会议和研究将学者、私营部门和政府研究人员以及政策制定者聚集在一起，就地理科学中最具挑战性和最重要的问题达成共识。GSC提供了一个论坛，使地理学家能够对科学的现状进行评估，并为未来的研究方向制定愿景。全球科学理事会的活动将使地理科学能够直接为国家一级的公共政策提供信息。该委员会还将通过国际地理联盟推动地理学家和相关科学家在美国和国际范围内发挥的作用。

The National Research Council (NRC) established a Geographical Sciences Committee (GSC) in 1997 because spatial and place-based approaches to human-environment science had demonstrated themselves to be of increasing importance in addressing major societal and environmental topics. This award renews core support for the GSC, which has as its mission: (1) to bring the theories and perspectives of the geographical sciences to bear on society's problems; (2) to foster international cooperation by serving as a liaison to other national geographical organizations and initiating collaborative research programs among those organizations; (3) to provide advice to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on all matters pertaining to geography, especially to the NAS Foreign Secretary on matters concerning international organizations, programs, and research; and (4) to serve as the official U.S. liaison to the International Geographical Union (IGU) and promote and facilitate participation of U.S. geographers in the IGU. The GSC undertakes its work through the conduct of special studies and through meetings. The GSC will identify study topics that will meet the needs of the geographical sciences community and incorporate the recommendations of the 2010 NRC report titled "Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade" into the GSC agenda. The GSC will address both these items through the identification of study tracks related to health; human dimensions of global climate change; and the global recession's role in the restructuring of American society.Continued support for the GSC will enable this group to bring academics, private sector and government researchers, and policy makers together through roundtables and studies to reach consensus on the most challenging and significant issues in the geographical sciences. The GSC provides a forum to enable geographers to make assessments on the current state of the science and develop a vision for future research directions. GSC activities will enable the geographic sciences in directly inform public policy at the national level. The committee also will advance the role that geographers and related scientists play in a range of contexts in the U.S. and internationally through the International Geographical Union.