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处于这些挑战的前沿，但还有更多的挑战，包括减少贫困；管理移民；改善世界各地获得水、医疗保健和教育的机会；可持续开发有限的自然资源等。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。为了跨文化地协商这些不同的可持续性挑战，研究人员的跨学科团队必须合作，并与当地和非当地的学者和专家以及各种利益攸关方和社区成员合作。正是在这个由可持续性挑战、学术、社会经济和文化系统以及政治地理构成的复杂格局中，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。这一研究项目旨在帮助发展跨学科研究人员、当地学者、利益相关者和社区成员团队，以便他们能够在不同文化之间、在不同文化之间、在不同挑战之间最好地合作。此外，随着这些领导团队的网络通过基于网络的平台在全球范围内发展，该项目将为他们提供支持。该项目的主要目标是确定关键的社会和心理特征，无论是单独的还是集体的，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。支持可持续发展研究所开发和测试一系列社会科学研究方法和工具，这些方法和工具被称为《可持续未来议定书》，通过这些方法和工具，可以了解、衡量并--也许最重要的--实现可持续发展行动的协作和协调的最优能力。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力和可持续发展的最佳社区动力的测试、教学和发展工具。它将提供可单独或在社区一级发展的技能指南，以促进有关全球可持续未来的决策。

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.