Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Southern Africa's Hydro-Economy and Water Security: SAHEWS

该奖项为参与一个由13个国家通过贝尔蒙论坛和八国集团研究理事会的全球变化研究计划竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙论坛是一个高级别的世界组织，S是全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的主要和新兴资助者。其目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。八国集团研究理事会负责人制定了一个筹资框架，以支持多边研究项目，这些项目以超出国家或双边活动能力的方式应对全球挑战。每个伙伴国都在一个联合体内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。贝尔蒙论坛和G8HORCs在国际机遇基金的首届呼吁中共同努力，为寻求提供必要知识以采取行动减轻和适应有害环境变化和与淡水安全或沿海脆弱性有关的极端危险事件的研究项目提供了支持。该奖项为美国研究人员在财团中的合作提供支持，该财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户(例如，政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业)聚集在一起。该奖项支持研究活动，这些活动将解决水供应、需求和共享方面的重要知识差距，并将研究应用于有效管理南部非洲的淡水安全。人口增长、干旱导致的粮食短缺、不断增加的能源需求和多变的气候等诸多挑战相互作用，使南部非洲对淡水安全威胁特别敏感。除这些挑战外，在更广泛的水电经济中，缺乏公平和可持续地管理供需的体制和政策手段。该项目将结合对短期和中期水文气象变化及其社会经济后果的了解，制定改进区域水资源管理的办法。研究人员将改进对水文气象可变性和人类-环境相互作用的理解，以确定这种可变性如何影响区域水文经济。这将通过仔细的案例研究和共同设计的研究来实现，并促进高级别的知识交流。该项目将有助于更好地了解全球气候-水-粮食-能源之间的关系，以支持决策以及公平和可持续的淡水管理。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 13-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum and the G8 countries Heads of Research Councils. The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research and international science councils. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. The G8 Heads of Research Councils developed a funding framework to support multilateral research projects that address global challenges in ways that are beyond the capacity of national or bilateral activities. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in an inaugural call of the International Opportunities Fund, the Belmont Forum and G8HORCs have provided support for research projects that seek to deliver knowledge needed for action to mitigate and adapt to detrimental environmental change and extreme hazardous events that relate to either Freshwater Security or Coastal Vulnerability. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). This award supports research activities that will address important knowledge gaps in water supply, demand and sharing, and in the application of research to the effective management of freshwater security in Southern Africa. Numerous challenges including population growth, drought-induced food shortages, increasing energy demands and a variable climate interact to make Southern Africa especially sensitive to freshwater security threats. Adding to these challenges is a lack of institutional and policy instruments for equitable and sustainable management of supply and demand in the broader hydro-economy. This project will integrate an understanding of short to medium term hydro-meteorological variability and its socioeconomic consequences to develop approaches for improved regional water resources management. Researchers will develop an improved understanding of hydro-meteorological variability and human-environmental interactions to characterize how this variability affects the regional hydro-economy. This will be achieved through careful case study and co-designed research and facilitated high level knowledge exchange. This project will contribute an improved understanding of the global climate-water-food-energy nexus to support decision making and equitable and sustainable freshwater management.