EAGER: The Sustainable Futures Protocol: A New Social Science Research Vehicle to Identify and Develop Key Psychological and Sociocultural Competencies for Sustainability Worldwide

越来越多的研究人员正在接受向全球可持续发展过渡的许多社会和文化挑战。虽然快速的全球变暖和极端天气往往是这些挑战的前沿，但还有更多的挑战，包括减少贫困；管理迁移;改善全世界获得水、医疗保健和教育的机会；有限自然资源的可持续发展等。这些挑战虽然是全球性的，但在社会和文化相当多样化的北极地区尤为严峻。为了跨文化地应对这些不同的可持续性挑战，跨学科的研究团队必须共同努力，并与本地和非本地学者和专家以及各种利益相关者和社区成员合作。正是在这种可持续发展挑战、学术、社会经济和文化系统以及政治地理的复杂景观中，该项目有可能为未来的研究方法和全球解决方案提供信息。该研究项目旨在帮助培养跨学科研究人员、当地学者、利益相关者和社区成员团队，使他们能够在不同文化和挑战中最好地合作。此外，该项目将通过基于网络的平台支持这些领导团队的网络在全球范围内的发展。该项目的主要目标是确定个人和集体的关键社会和心理特征，这些特征导致社区领导人理解并愿意投资于可持续发展的想法和项目。支持PI开发和测试一系列社会科学研究方法和工具，称为“可持续未来协议”，通过该协议，可以理解、衡量和实现可持续发展行动的最优合作和协调能力。该研究项目的跨文化部分将是在北极、加勒比和美国社区开发和测试《可持续未来议定书》。这项工作的结果将为个人和团体提供关于社区领导和可持续发展的最佳社区动态的测试、教学和发展工具。它将提供可在个人或社区一级发展的技能指导方针，以促进关于全球可持续未来的决定。

A growing number of researchers are taking-up the many social and cultural challenges of transitioning toward global sustainability. While rapid global warming and extreme weather are often at the forefront of these challenges there are many more, including reduction in poverty; managing migration; improving access to water, healthcare, and education worldwide; sustainable development of limited natural resources, etc. These challenges, although global, are particularly acute in the Arctic, which is socially and culturally quite diverse. In order to cross culturally negotiate these diverse sets of sustainability challenges, interdisciplinary teams of researchers must work together, as well as with local and non-local scholars and experts and variety of stakeholders and community members. It is in this complex landscape of sustainability challenges, scholarship, socio-economic and cultural systems, and political geography that this project has the potential to inform future research methods and global solutions. This research project seeks to help develop interdisciplinary researcher, local scholar, stakeholder, and community member teams so that they can best work together within and across cultures and within and across challenges. In addition the project will support these leadership teams as their network grows globally through web-based platforms. The main goal of the project is to identify the key social and psychological characteristics, individually and collectively, that lead to community leaders that understand and are willing to invest in sustainability ideas and projects. Support is given to the PI to develop and test a complex of social science research methods and tools, labeled the Sustainable Futures Protocols, by which the most optimal competencies for collaboration and coordination of actions for sustainability can be understood, measured, and, perhaps most importantly, achieved. The cross cultural component of the research project will be the development and testing of the Sustainable Futures Protocol in Arctic, Caribbean, and USA communities. Results from this work will provide a testing, teaching, and development tool for individuals and groups with regard to community leadership and optimal community dynamics for sustainability. It will provide a guideline of skills that can be developed individually or at the community level in order facilitate decisions about a global sustainable future.