NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) for FY 2013 in Australia

这项行动资助乔治梅森大学的达纳·多兰在2013年夏天在位于ACT堪培拉的澳大利亚国立大学（ANU）进行社会、行为和经济科学领域的跨学科研究项目。 该项目的名称是“在复杂、跨界、社会生态系统中适应气候变化的治理”。“主持科学家是斯蒂芬·R教授。多弗斯，澳大利亚国立大学芬纳环境与社会学院院长，本研究的目标是了解长期治理制度安排在理论和实践中的演变。气候变化是一个复杂的科学和社会挑战，其特点是不可减少的不确定性、很长的反馈周期和地方规模的重大变化。适应需要跨越多个机构界限和多个部门的协调和合作。这些要求提出了新的挑战，传统的，等级制的方法来治理以及分散的市场方法;网络治理理论可能有助于解释新兴的决策结构。这项研究响应了气候变化研究界的呼吁，实证研究分析了基于地点的适应，并扩展了现有的工作，在自然科学，通过定性案例研究的公共政策网络在澳大利亚东南部的墨累达令盆地（MDB）地区，一个生态丰富，政治分散，制度多样的社会生态系统（SES），将社会科学。此外，这项研究可能会提供见解的文献上的制度变迁，广义。传统的理论，如间断均衡，提供了丰富的洞察力如何发生或抵制制度变革在复杂的公共政策领域：通过对危机的反应治理。然而，长期的气候变化危机有可能产生一些事件（“间断”），造成人类痛苦，造成不可接受的后果。发展替代模式的制度变革，支持积极主动的方法来长期治理问题，可能有助于减少这些负面后果。EAPSI奖学金的更广泛的影响，包括提供研究员在美国以外的第一手研究经验;介绍各自所在地的科学，科学政策和科学基础设施;以及社会，文化和语言的方向。这些活动符合NSF的目标，即在科学家，工程师和教育工作者的职业生涯早期进行国际合作教育，从而确保具有全球意识的美国科学工作者。本研究的结果将记录在适合同行评审出版物的研究报告中。研究结果还将在澳大利亚和美国的全国性会议和地方研讨会或讲习班上发表，目的是促进跨国政策学习和合作奖学金。

This action funds Dana Dolan of George Mason University to conduct an interdisciplinary research project in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences area during the summer of 2013 at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, ACT. The project title is "Governance for Climate Change Adaptation in Complex, Crossboundary, Social-Ecological Systems." The host scientist is Professor Stephen R. Dovers, Director of ANU's Fenner School of Environment and Society.The goal of this study is to understand the evolution of institutional arrangements for long-term governance, in theory and in practice. Climate change is a scientifically and socially complex challenge marked by irreducible uncertainty, very long feedback cycles and significant variation at the local scale. Adaptation will require coordination and collaboration across multiple institutional boundaries and across multiple sectors. These requirements present novel challenges to traditional, hierarchical approaches to governing as well as to decentralized market approaches; networked governance theories may help explain emerging decision-making structures. This study responds to calls from the climate change research community for empirical research that analyzes place-based adaptation and that extends existing work in the natural sciences to incorporate social sciences through a qualitative case study of the public policy networks in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) region in southeast Australia, an ecologically rich, politically fragmented, and institutionally diverse Social-Ecological System (SES). Furthermore, this research may provide insights for the literature on institutional change, broadly defined. Traditional theories such as punctuated equilibrium have provided a wealth of insight into how institutional change occurs-or is resisted-in complex public policy areas: governance through reaction to crises. However, the long-term crisis of climate change threatens to produce events ("punctuations") with unacceptable consequences in terms of human suffering. Developing alternative models of institutional change that support proactive approaches to long-term governance issues may help reduce these negative consequences.Broader impacts of an EAPSI fellowship include providing the Fellow a first-hand research experience outside the U.S.; an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and an orientation to the society, culture and language. These activities meet the NSF goal to educate for international collaborations early in the career of its scientists, engineers, and educators, thus ensuring a globally aware U.S. scientific workforce. Results of this study will be documented in a research report suitable for peer-reviewed publication. Findings will also be presented at national conferences and local seminars or workshops in both Australia and the United States with the aim of furthering cross-national policy learning and collaborative scholarship.