ASUS: Arctic SUStainability: A Synthesis of Knowledge

该奖项为参与由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）发起的全球变化研究14国倡议竞争性选拔项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个世界性的高层组织。全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的主要和新兴资助者。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速进行最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这一合作研究行动中，合作机构为利用现有北极观测系统、数据集和模型评估北极地区关键的可持续性挑战和机遇的研究项目提供了支持，为应对这些挑战和机遇创新新的可持续性科学理论和方法，并为实现可持续北极环境的决策提供支持。该奖项将支持美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和最终用户（如政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）聚集在一起。北极可持续发展：知识综合（ASUS）联合了来自加拿大、丹麦、格陵兰、冰岛、挪威、俄罗斯、瑞典和美国的不同专业团队，制定了一个框架，突出了当前对实现北极可持续发展的理解、最佳实践和指标。NSF为华硕联盟的美国团队成员提供支持。在建立这一框架的过程中，这项工作不仅考虑了复原力的社会、人口、经济和环境方面，而且通过一个广泛的北极利益攸关方参与的包容性进程，在一系列尺度上考察了这些方面。该团队利用在北极可持续性、观测和开发方面的现有投资，为八个工作包（1：可持续北极地区和社区，2：可持续北极环境，3：可持续北极文化，4：可持续北极经济，5：可持续北极城市，6：可持续资源，7：可持续发展监测，8：可持续发展治理）提供信息。该小组将通过国际北极科学协会的庞大网络收集和交流进展。这个项目的合成产品将通过讲习班以及教育和网络材料传播。在建造产品和材料时，将考虑北极理事会可持续发展工作组等关键的北极利益相关者。该小组将通过一个有管理的中心群和一个委员会结构进行这项综合工作，以确保继续沟通和协调这项复杂的多国努力。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 14-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research and international science councils. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support for research projects that utilize existing Arctic observing systems, datasets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the Arctic region, to innovate new sustainability science theory and approaches to these challenges and opportunities, and support decision-making towards a sustainable Arctic environment. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and end users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). Arctic Sustainability: A Synthesis of Knowledge (ASUS) unites a team of diverse expertise from Canada, Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the US to develop a framework that highlights the state of current understanding, best practices, and metrics for achieving sustainability in the Arctic. NSF provides support to the US team members of the ASUS consortium. The effort takes into account not only the social, demographic, economic, and environmental aspects of resilience in creating this framework, but looks at these across a range of scales using an inclusive process that engages a breadth of Arctic stakeholders. The team leverages existing investments in Arctic sustainability, observing, and development to inform the eight work packages (1: Sustainable Arctic Regions and Communities, 2: Sustainable Arctic Environments, 3: Sustainable Arctic Cultures, 4: Sustainable Arctic Economies, 5: Sustainable Arctic Cities, 6: Sustainable Resources, 7: Monitoring of Sustainability, 8: Governance for Sustainability). The team will gather and communicate progress through the vast networks of international Arctic scientific associations. The synthesis products from this project will be disseminated through workshops and through educational and web-based materials. Key Arctic stakeholder, such as the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council, will be considered when constructing products and materials. The team will conduct this synthesis through a managed constellation of centers and a committee structure to ensure continued communication and coordination of this complex, multi-national effort.