RCN-SEES: Integrating Land-Use Scenarios, Ecosystem Services, and Linkages to Society (Scenarios, Services, and Society - S3)

土地利用是全球变化的主要驱动力，与生态系统结构和功能以及人类福祉密切相关。人们需要自然景观和管理景观来提供食物和纤维，支持减缓和适应气候变化，减轻贫困，支持人类福祉。然而，了解和促进可持续土地利用轨迹的知识基础是高度分散的，往往与社会背景和作为变革主要推动者的人类社区隔绝。该研究协调项目将建立一个由科学家、决策者和其他利益相关者组成的跨学科网络，以综合现有信息，并生产科学产品，以了解和推进可持续的土地利用轨迹。主要活动将是：生成一套与利益相关者共同开发的定性土地利用情景，描绘美国新英格兰地区未来一系列可能的社会、经济和环境现实；利用现有的建模框架，模拟土地利用情景与多种环境压力因素的相互作用；根据与利益相关者一起定义的生态系统服务来评估这些情景；并与更广泛的公众和决策者分享知识，以推进可持续的土地利用轨迹。该项目将在其为期五年的时间内整合多个更广泛的影响。通过将博士后和各级学生作为网络的参与者，该项目将通过提供管理协作性跨学科研究网络的直接经验，为STEM劳动力的发展做出贡献。该网络还将为所有级别的科学家提供有关利益相关者参与技术、将科学与行动联系起来以及科学传播的培训。该项目将赞助区域讲习班，以制定由利益攸关方定义的土地使用情景，并将这些情景与可付诸行动的实际解决方案联系起来。

Land use is a major driver of global change and is intimately connected with ecosystem structure and function, and with human well-being. Natural and managed landscapes are called upon to supply food and fiber, support climate change mitigation and adaptation, alleviate poverty, and support human well-being. Yet, the knowledge base for understanding and promoting sustainable land-use trajectories is highly fragmented and oftentimes isolated from its social context and from the human communities who represent the principle agents of change. This Research Coordination Project will create an interdisciplinary network of scientists, decision makers and other stakeholders to synthesize existing information, and produce science products to understand and advance sustainable land-use trajectories. The major activities will be to: generate a suite of qualitative land-use scenarios co-developed with stakeholders that depict a range of possible future social, economic, and environmental realities for the New England region of the United States; simulate the land-use scenarios as they interact with multiple environmental stressors using existing modeling frameworks; evaluate these scenarios in terms of ecosystem services that are defined together with the stakeholders; and share knowledge with the broader public and decision makers to advance sustainable land-use trajectories.This project will integrate multiple broader impacts throughout its five-year duration. By including post-docs and students at all levels as participants in the network, this project will contribute to STEM workforce development by offering direct experience in managing collaborative, interdisciplinary research networks. The network will also provide training for scientists of all ranks in techniques of stakeholder engagement, linking science with action, and science communication. This project will sponsor regional workshops for developing stakeholder-defined land use scenarios and for linking these to practical solutions that can be put into action.