Collaborative proposal: Workshop on Best Practices for Integrating the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences for Sustainability Research and Education

合作提案：可持续发展研究和教育整合社会科学和自然科学最佳实践研讨会

• 批准号: 1415082
• 负责人: Lilian Alessa
• 金额: $ 1.37万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Idaho
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1415082&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; proposal; Workshop; Best; Practices

This workshop brings together scholars who are doing research that involves team-based, interdisciplinary, integrative research focused on the social sciences in collaboration with natural sciences and engineering. The purpose is to explore lessons learned from such research toward producing a report of best practices for integrating the social sciences with the biophysical sciences, mathematics, and engineering for sustainability science. The workshop explores what works, what doesn't work and why in order to engage these leaders in questions of how to best mentor emerging integrative scientists, to identify the key technologies which are critical to enabling integrative sustainability science and to provide structured guidance on how to integrate the social sciences in sustainability research and education. These best practices are directed at diverse audiences ranging from NSF and other funding program decision makers to researchers and education experts engaged in sustainability programs.Sustainability science encompasses a myriad range of issues and processes that involve diverse aspects of the natural world and the societies that are part of it. It is only through an understanding of these latter phenomena that likely solutions will be derived. Moreover, the approaches to sustainability science have to address the multitude of worldviews and values that comprise the roots of the many challenges we currently face. To date, no meeting has occurred in the Americas to clearly articulate what has become an overwhelming call to find effective and powerful ways to incorporate the social sciences, and an understanding of social dynamics, into sustainability science. To achieve sustainability, decision makers must learn to integrate knowledge and methods from the natural sciences, engineering, and the social sciences. Solutions are neither purely technical nor socio-economic, but involve bringing together best practices from all fields. This workshop is a step toward learning how to do the necessary integration.

该研讨会汇集了正在进行研究的学者，涉及基于团队的跨学科，综合研究，重点是与自然科学和工程合作的社会科学。目的是探索从此类研究中学到的经验教训，以制定将社会科学与生物物理科学，数学和可持续性科学工程学相结合的最佳实践报告。该研讨会探讨了什么有效，什么无效以及为什么要吸引这些领导者参与如何最好地指导新兴的综合科学家的问题，以确定对实现综合可持续性科学至关重要的关键技术，并提供有关如何在可持续性研究和教育中整合社会科学的结构化指导。这些最佳实践针对从NSF和其他资助计划的决策者到从事可持续性计划的研究人员和教育专家的不同受众群体。SustainabilityScience涵盖了各种问题和过程，这些问题和过程涉及自然界的各个方面以及社会的一部分。只有通过对这些后一种现象的理解，可能会得出解决方案。此外，可持续性科学的方法必须解决构成我们目前面临的许多挑战根源的众多世界观和价值观。迄今为止，美洲尚未发生任何会议，以清楚地阐明什么是一个压倒性的呼吁，以寻找有效而有力的方法将社会科学和对社会动态的理解纳入可持续性科学。为了实现可持续性，决策者必须学会从自然科学，工程和社会科学中融合知识和方法。解决方案既不是纯粹的技术，也不是社会经济，而是涉及将各个领域的最佳实践汇总在一起。该研讨会是学习如何进行必要集成的一步。