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

土地使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。 自然景观和管理景观被要求提供食物和纤维，支持减缓和适应气候变化，减轻贫困，并支持人类福祉。 然而，用于理解和促进可持续土地使用轨迹的知识基础非常分散，往往与其社会背景和代表变革主要推动者的人类社区相隔离。 该研究协调项目将建立一个由科学家、决策者和其他利益攸关方组成的跨学科网络，以综合现有信息，并制作科学产品，以了解和推进可持续土地利用轨迹。主要活动将是：与利益有关者共同制定一套定性的土地使用设想方案，描述美国新英格兰地区未来可能的社会、经济和环境现实;利用现有的建模框架模拟土地使用设想方案与多种环境压力因素的相互作用;根据与利益攸关方共同界定的生态系统服务评估这些情景;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。该项目将在其五个方面整合多种更广泛的影响-年持续时间。通过将各级博士后和学生作为网络的参与者，该项目将通过提供管理协作，跨学科研究网络的直接经验，为STEM劳动力发展做出贡献。 该网络还将为各级科学家提供利益攸关方参与技术、将科学与行动联系起来以及科学传播方面的培训。 该项目将主办区域讲习班，以制定由土地所有者界定的土地使用设想方案，并将这些设想方案与可付诸行动的实际解决办法联系起来。

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.