Core Support for the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) of the National Research Council (NRC)

对国家研究委员会 (NRC) 环境变化与社会委员会 (BECS) 的核心支持

• 批准号: 1442355
• 负责人: Toby Warden
• 金额: $ 52.5万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1442355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Core; Support; Board; Environmental; Change

This award will continue support for core operations of the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. This board has functioned under its current and previous names since 1990 to advance science and environmental decision making by promoting integrated analysis of the human interactions with the natural environment. It works with project sponsors to develop products that are problem-focused and that demonstrate a clear role for the social and behavioral sciences in identifying and informing solutions to environmental challenges. BECS will clarify environmental research needs and opportunities for the social and behavioral science research community in order to facilitate the involvement of scientists in these fields to engage in research that will have yield new information and insights of scholarly and practical value as society faces increasingly complex environmental issues. BECS will pay particular attention to the integration of the social and behavioral sciences with the natural sciences in helping ascertain the natural and social contexts of problems faced by environmental decision makers. It will help assess the utility of insights from the social and behavioral sciences to address, and it will help to sharpen the scientific underpinning for analytic and decision-support tools to be developed and applied by governmental agencies and others. In addition to working with sponsors to conduct special problem-focused studies whose findings are widely disseminated, BECS will conduct problem-focused symposia in conjunction with its semi-annual meetings. These symposia will be webcast to enable scholars and practitioners unable to attend to benefit from these discussions during the symposia and afterwards. Benefits from the webcasted symposia and from other BECS products will include insights to help advance fundamental research on environmental topics in the social and behavioral sciences and to assist in the use of those insights by federal agencies and other governmental entities, non-governmental organizations, private firms, and educational organizations.Among the core activities undertaken by the Board on Environmental Change and Society are the maintenance of capacity at the National Academies to respond to requests for integrated analyses of human-environment issues. BECS also will continue nurturing collaborative links between natural scientists and social and behavioral scientists to improve scientific contributions to basic knowledge and applications of that knowledge in environmental settings. BECS also will promote discussions regarding current and future research directions through the conduct of problem-focused symposia in concert with its semi-annual meetings. Finally, BECS will serve as an oversight body for the conduct of focused studies and activities undertaken at the behest of other federal agencies.

该奖项将继续支持国家科学院国家研究委员会的环境变革与社会委员会核心运营。 自1990年以来，该董事会一直以其当前和先前的名字运行，以通过促进对人类与自然环境的互动的综合分析来推动科学和环境决策。 它与项目赞助商合作开发以问题为中心的产品，并在识别和告知解决环境挑战的解决方案中表现出明确的作用。 BEC将阐明社会和行为科学研究界的环境研究需求和机会，以促进科学家参与这些领域的研究，从而从社会面临越来越复杂的环境问题时从事学术和实践价值的新信息和见解。 BEC将特别关注社会和行为科学与自然科学的整合，以帮助确定环境决策者面临的问题的自然和社会背景。 它将有助于评估社会和行为科学的见解实用性，并将有助于加强政府机构和其他人开发和应用的分析和决策支持工具的科学基础。 除了与赞助商合作进行特殊的以问题为中心的研究，其发现被广泛传播外，BEC还将与其半年度会议一起进行以问题为中心的专题讨论会。 这些研讨会将是网络广播，以使学者和从业人员无法参加在研讨会期间和之后的讨论中受益。 网络播放的研讨会和其他BEC产品的好处将包括见解，以帮助推进社会和行为科学领域的环境主题的基本研究，并协助联邦机构和其他政府实体，非政府组织，私人公司和教育组织对核心活动的核心活动的核心活动来帮助使用这些见解。人类环境问题的综合分析。 BEC还将继续培养自然科学家与社会和行为科学家之间的协作联系，以改善对环境环境中这些知识的基础知识和应用的科学贡献。 BEC还将通过与半年度会议共同进行以问题为中心的研讨会来促进有关当前和未来研究方向的讨论。 最后，BEC将在其他联邦机构的要求下作为进行重点研究和活动的监督机构。