RCN Arctic-COAST: Arctic COASTal Community and Environmental Resilience International Interdisciplinary Research Coordination Network

RCN Arctic-COAST：北极海岸社区和环境复原力国际跨学科研究协调网络

• 批准号: 1441381
• 负责人: Andrey Petrov
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Northern Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-15 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1441381&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; Arctic; COAST; COASTal; Community

This award will support the establishment of an international Research Coordination Network (RCN) for science-policy interface among researchers, policy and decision makers, and young local and indigenous leaders to better understand and enhance resilience to ongoing dramatic changes in the Arctic. Arctic-COAST will provide an interface between the transdisciplinary research of biophysical, socio-economic, and decision-making academic research domains and policy applications to address the resilience of coastal socio-ecological systems. The Arctic coastal zone, especially in Eurasia, lacks an integrated framework for monitoring socio-ecological systems that could provide key observations for measuring resilience and assessing environmental and community sustainability. Knowledge and policy gaps exist with respect to understanding coastal socio-ecological systems, indicators of sustainability and resilience, scenario-based modeling, and scientific foundations for adaptive governance responses in the Arctic.By integrating data-rich regional case studies, developing data management tools, and presenting information through an education web-based portal, the network will contribute to research cyberinfrastructure in the circumpolar Arctic. Using a resilience framework as an overarching concept, Arctic-COAST will be instrumental in closing knowledge and policy gaps to foster sustainable development of Arctic ecosystems and communities, which is one of the deliverables for the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council during the US Chairmanship 2015-2017.Arctic-COAST employs a transdisciplinary approach of biophysical, socio-economic and policy research that will interface from the project's inception. Arctic-COAST knowledge structure encompasses five crosscutting themes related to Arctic coastal social-ecological systems (SES) resilience: indicators and monitoring, community resilience, adaptive governance, future scenario building, and nurturing new Arctic leaders. A sixth information and knowledge management theme is an integrated effort that summarizes, presents and delivers RCN results.Arctic-COAST will synthesize and disseminate knowledge about the state, dynamics and resilience of coastal SESs focusing on the circumpolar Arctic. To bridge existing knowledge gaps, Arctic-COAST will (1) provide systematic, synthetic knowledge about Eurasian and Northern American Arctic coastal SESs; (2) compile spatial, systems-based understandings of SES resilience for different geographical scales and regional contexts; (3) craft future research directions for Arctic SES resilience and ecosystem stewardship, focusing on governance issues; and (4) foster a new generation of scientists, policy and decision makers capable of adaptive management. Arctic-COAST will fund regular meetings and workshops to promote exchange, collaboration, training and educational opportunities for scientists, early career and Indigenous scholars, students and local community members.

该奖项将支持建立一个国际研究协调网络（RCN），用于研究人员，政策和决策者之间的科学政策界面，以及年轻的地方和土著领导者，以更好地理解和增强北极持续急剧变化的弹性。 北极海岸将提供生物物理，社会经济和决策学术研究领域的跨学科研究，以解决沿海社会生态系统的弹性。北极沿海地区，尤其是在欧亚大陆地区，缺少一个综合框架来监测社会生态系统，可以为衡量弹性和评估环境和社区可持续性提供关键的观察。 Knowledge and policy gaps exist with respect to understanding coastal socio-ecological systems, indicators of sustainability and resilience, scenario-based modeling, and scientific foundations for adaptive governance responses in the Arctic.By integrating data-rich regional case studies, developing data management tools, and presenting information through an education web-based portal, the network will contribute to research cyberinfrastructure in the circumpolar Arctic. 将弹性框架作为总体概念，北极海岸将有助于缩小知识和政策差距，以促进北极生态系统和社区的可持续发展，这是美国北极委员会可持续发展工作集团的可持续发展工作集团之一，在美国北极委员会的可持续发展工作组之一项目成立的接口。 北极海岸知识结构包括五个与北极沿海社会生态系统（SES）弹性相关的跨越主题：指标和监测，社区韧性，适应性治理，自适应治理，未来的情况建设以及培养新的北极领导者。第六个信息和知识管理主题是一项综合努力，总结，礼物和提供RCN结果。Arctic-Coast将综合并传播有关沿海情节的状态，动态和弹性的知识，专注于圆形北极北极。 为了弥合现有的知识差距，北极海岸将（1）提供有关欧亚和北美北极沿海地区的系统，合成的知识； （2）对不同地理量表和区域环境的SES弹性的编译，基于系统的理解； （3）针对北极SES弹性和生态系统管理的未来研究指导，重点是治理问题； （4）培养能够自适应管理的新一代科学家，政策和决策者。 Arctic-Coast将为定期会议和研讨会提供资金，以促进科学家，早期职业和土著学者，学生和当地社区成员的交流，合作，培训和教育机会。