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，这些活动将开发一个综合框架来评估气候变化对美国、英国和巴西沿海社区的人类影响。通常，科学研究和政策选择的制定主要关注技术或管理问题。在考虑沿海适应挑战和可持续性时，社会动态和价值观以及文化和制度结构往往没有直接纳入和解决。该项目将直接与利益相关者和政策制定者合作，在评估风险脆弱性时共同生成数据和适应方案。将使用缩小规模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、适应方案和成本/效益分析的潜在影响。社会研究将使用一系列调查、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、参与流程和风险评估模型如何支持决策流程和政策行动，并有助于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.