US-Australia planning visit: Social dimensions of ecosystem service provision from ecological restoration projects

这项提议寻求在美国和澳大利亚的研究人员之间建立一种新的智力合作伙伴关系，以探索自然-人类耦合系统的动态：恢复生态系统以提供生态服务。外国合作者是昆士兰大学的保护生态学家克里·威尔逊和西澳大利亚大学的环境经济学家马利特·克拉格。越来越多的社会呼吁生态恢复，不仅是为了扭转动植物栖息地的退化，也是为了给人类带来宝贵的物质和非物质利益，如水质、固碳、授粉和娱乐机会。这项工作将通过一系列利益相关者调查，探索生态恢复的一个未被充分研究的社会层面。它旨在阐明人们知道什么，他们关心多少，以及他们是否采取行动之间的关系。这项研究提出了一个基本问题，“人们知道什么，如何影响他们的行动？”回答这个问题对于理解是什么造就了“可操作的科学”，以及发展有弹性的自然-人类系统是至关重要的，这些系统是由人们塑造的，以可持续的方式满足他们的需求。我们的试点研究将促进对围绕栖息地恢复的社会生态系统的一个主要组成部分的理解，同时为未来的工作奠定基础，这些工作将探索利益相关者、科学家、土地管理者和政策制定者如何与生态系统互动，以确定生态轨迹。这些发现将直接有助于资源管理，特别是保护规划者和修复从业者。该项目将为一位职业早期的女科学家提供国际经验，她在外国合作者的指导下探索新的科学方向。本科生将接受研究和教学技能方面的培训，而皮埃尔？S用新方法获得的经验将丰富一个以本科为主的机构的课程内容。

This proposal seeks to create a new intellectual partnership between US- and Australia-based researchers to explore the dynamics of a coupled natural-human system: the restoration of ecosystems to provide ecological services. The foreign collaborators are conservation ecologist Kerrie Wilson (University of Queensland), and environmental economist Marit Kragt (University of Western Australia). Increasingly, societies are calling on ecological restoration not just to reverse the degradation of habitats for flora and fauna, but to yield valuable material and non-material benefits to humans, such as water quality, carbon sequestration, pollination, and recreational opportunities. This work will explore an understudied social dimension of ecological restoration through a series of stakeholder surveys. It aims to elucidate the relationship between what people know, how much they care, and whether they act.This research asks the basic question, "How does what people know influence how they act?" Answering this question is fundamental to understanding what makes for "actionable science," and to developing resilient natural-human systems, shaped by people to meet their needs sustainably. Our pilot study will advance understanding of a major component of the socio-ecological system surrounding habitat restoration, while laying the groundwork for future work that will explore how stakeholders, scientists, land managers, and policymakers interact with ecosystems to determine ecological trajectories. The findings will be directly useful to resource management, especially conservation planners and restoration practitioners. The project will lend international experience to an early-career, female scientist exploring a new scientific direction under the mentorship of the foreign collaborators. An undergraduate student will be trained in research and teaching skills, and the PI?s experience with new methods will enrich coursework at a primarily undergraduate institution.