Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: METROPOLE: An Integrated Framework to Analyze Local Decision Making and Adaptive Capacity to Large-Scale Environmental Change

该奖项支持美国研究人员参加一个项目，该项目是由13个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛和八国集团国家研究理事会负责人竞争性选择的。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个高层次的世界集团？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。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。八国集团研究委员会负责人制定了一个资助框架，以支持以超出国家或双边活动能力的方式应对全球挑战的多边研究项目。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团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，支持对具有全球意义的专题进行出色的研究，这些专题最好通过多国办法加以解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。贝尔蒙特论坛和G8 HORC为研究项目提供了支持，这些项目旨在提供采取行动减轻和适应有害环境所需的知识，与淡水安全或沿海脆弱性有关的环境变化和极端危险事件。 该奖项为美国研究人员在财团中进行合作提供支持，该财团由至少三个参与国家的合作伙伴组成，并汇集了自然科学家、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）。 该奖项支持研究活动，将制定一个综合框架，以评估气候变化对美国，英国和巴西沿海社区的影响。科学研究和政策选择的制定往往主要侧重于技术或管理问题。在考虑沿海适应挑战和可持续性时，往往没有直接纳入和处理社会动态和价值观以及文化和体制结构。该项目将直接与利益攸关方和决策者合作，在评估风险脆弱性时共同编制数据和适应办法。将使用缩小尺度的气候预测和最先进的可视化工具来说明对基础设施、健康、经济风险、适应选择和成本/效益分析的潜在影响。社会研究将使用一系列的调查，模型和访谈来了解价值观，信仰，权衡和适应能力。这项工作将有助于理解可视化技术，参与过程和风险评估模型如何支持决策过程和政策行动，并解决不同文化背景的社区如何应对风险的复杂问题。

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 develop an integrated framework to assess the human dimensions of climate change impacts in coastal communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. Often, scientific research and development of policy options focus primarily on technical or managerial concerns. Social dynamics and values as well as cultural and institutional structures are often not directly incorporated and addressed when considering coastal adaptation challenges and sustainability. This project will work directly with stakeholders and policymakers to co-produce data and adaptation options when assessing risk vulnerability. Downscaled climate forecasts and state-of-the-art visualization tools will be used to illustrate potential impacts on infrastructure, health, economic risk, adaption options, and cost/benefit analyses. Social research will use a series of surveys, models and interviews to understand values, beliefs, tradeoffs, and adaptive capacity. This work will contribute toward understanding how visualization technologies, engagement processes, and risk assessment models can support decision making processes and policy actions and toward addressing the complex issue of how communities of different cultural backgrounds respond to risk.