Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Maintaining productivity and incomes in the Tonle Sap fishery in the face of climate 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。八国集团研究理事会负责人制定了一个供资框架，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提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作，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）。 该奖项支持的研究活动，将提供新的理解气候变化的反应和淡水滥捕渔业的管理选择。淡水渔业为世界上一些最贫穷国家的数亿人提供粮食安全和收入。这些渔业由多种多样的鱼种组合和不加区别的捕捞做法组成。不分青红皂白的捕鱼做法可能对生态系统的可持续性和管理产生重要但尚未考虑到的影响。该项目将（1）构建一个通用理论，以了解气候变化下不分青红皂白的捕捞对社会和生态的影响，（2）在柬埔寨具有经济和社会重要性的洞里萨湖渔业中发展和检验这一理论。洞里萨湖是世界上最大和最具生产力的滥捕渔业之一，每年都会收到来自湄公河的大量洪水脉冲。渔业法规的最新变化提供了了解治理和管理，气候和生态如何相互作用以调节粮食生产的可持续性和维持的机会。这些努力将有助于人们了解滥捕渔业和地方治理结构的影响，以及各种选择对生活在柬埔寨的数百万人和全世界滥捕渔业的影响。

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 deliver new understanding of climate change responses and management options of freshwater indiscriminate fisheries. Freshwater fisheries provide food security and income for hundreds of millions of people worldwide in some of the poorest countries on the planet. These fisheries are composed of diverse assemblages of species and indiscriminate fishing practices. Indiscriminate fishing practices are likely to have important but yet unconsidered implications for the sustainability and management of ecosystems. This project will (1) construct a general theory to understand the social and ecological implications of indiscriminate fisheries under climate changes and (2) develop and test this theory in the economically and socially important Tonle Sap fishery in Cambodia. The Tonle Sap Lake is one of the largest and most productive indiscriminate fisheries in the world, receiving large annual flood pulses from the Mekong River. Recent changes in fisheries regulations present the opportunity to understand how governance and management, climate, and ecology interact to regulate the sustainability and maintenance of food production. These efforts will contribute an understanding of the implications of indiscriminate fisheries and local governance structures and options have for millions living in Cambodia and for indiscriminate fisheries worldwide.