Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Multi-scale adaptations to global change and their impacts on vulnerability in coastal areas

该奖项为参与由 13 个国家的全球变化研究倡议通过贝尔蒙特论坛和八国集团国家研究委员会负责人竞争性选出的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是由全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的世界主要和新兴资助者组成的高级别团体。 它旨在通过调整和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。八国集团研究理事会首脑制定了一个资助框架，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。每个伙伴国家都在一个联盟内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨境资金的需求。 这种方法有利于有效利用国家资源，支持最好通过多国方法解决的全球相关主题的优秀研究，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在国际机会基金的首次呼吁中，贝尔蒙特论坛和 G8HORC 共同为研究项目提供了支持，这些项目寻求提供行动所需的知识，以减轻和适应与淡水安全或沿海脆弱性相关的有害环境变化和极端危险事件。 该奖项为美国研究人员在联盟中进行合作提供支持，该联盟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，这些活动将更好地了解沿海地区潜在的社会生态适应过程，从而促进有效适应沿海脆弱性。适应实践可能会对社会、特定利益相关者和/或生态系统的脆弱性产生长期和意想不到的后果。了解生物物理变化、认知过程和适应实践的风险之间如何发生反馈可以促进更有效的适应策略。该项目将采用社会生态系统方法来模拟法国、南非和英国三个沿海地区应对气候变化的实践和反馈。这将通过评估（1）气候变化带来的实际风险之间的相互作用来完成； （2）感知风险、适应能力等认知因素； (3) 改编； (4) 决策者和利益相关者参与建模过程的情境学习。 将开发从个人到区域规划机构的多尺度模型来研究有助于适应实践的认知转变。该项目将重点关注决策的制定方式以及决策和实践的长期影响，从而有助于改善脆弱性和适应评估和决策。

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 create a better understanding of the underlying socio-ecological adaptation processes in coastal regions that facilitate effective adaptation to coastal vulnerabilities. Adaptation practices can have long term and unintended consequences for the vulnerability of society, specific stakeholders, and/or ecosystems. Understanding how feedbacks occur between risk from biophysical changes, cognitive processes and adaptation practices can facilitate more effective adaptation strategies. This project will adopt a socio-ecological systems approach to model practices and feedbacks in response to climate change in three coastal regions in France, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. This will be done by assessing interactions among (1) actual risks posed by climate change; (2) cognitive factors such as perceived risk and adaptive capacity; (3) adaptations; and (4) situational learning where decision makers and stakeholders participate in modeling processes. Multi-scale models, ranging in scale from individuals to regional planning bodies, will be developed to study cognitive shifts that contribute to adaptation practices. This project will contribute toward improving vulnerability and adaptation assessment and decisions by focusing on the way decisions are made and the long term implications consequences of decisions and practices.