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

该奖项将支持建立一个国际研究协调网络(RCN)，在研究人员、政策制定者和年轻的当地和土著领导人之间建立科学-政策接口，以更好地了解和提高对北极正在发生的戏剧性变化的适应能力。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与政策应用之间的接口，以解决沿海社会生态系统的复原力问题。北极沿海地区，特别是欧亚大陆，缺乏监测社会生态系统的综合框架，无法为衡量复原力和评估环境和社区的可持续性提供关键观测。在了解沿海社会生态系统、可持续性和复原力指标、基于情景的建模以及适应治理对策的科学基础方面存在知识和政策差距。通过整合数据丰富的区域案例研究、开发数据管理工具和通过基于教育的门户网站提供信息，该网络将有助于研究北极地区的网络基础设施。使用复原力框架作为总体概念，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2015-2017年美国担任北极理事会主席期间北极理事会可持续发展工作组的成果之一。北极海岸采用生物物理、社会经济和政策研究的跨学科方法，从项目开始就会相互配合。北极海岸知识结构包括与北极沿海社会生态系统(SES)复原力相关的五个横向主题：指标和监测、社区复原力、适应性治理、未来情景建设和培养新的北极领导人。第六个信息和知识管理主题是一项综合努力，总结、介绍和交付区域协调委员会的成果。北极海岸将综合和传播关于沿海可持续发展系统的状态、动态和复原力的知识，重点放在环北极地区。为了弥合现有的知识差距，北极海岸将(1)提供关于欧亚和北美洲北极沿海海洋生态系统的系统综合知识；(2)汇编不同地理尺度和区域背景下对海洋生态系统复原力的空间、系统理解；(3)为北极海洋生态系统复原力和生态系统管理制定未来研究方向，重点是治理问题；(4)培养能够进行适应性管理的新一代科学家、政策制定者和决策者。北极海岸将资助定期会议和讲习班，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。

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.