Global Connections and Changing Resource Use System in the Arctic

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。全球连接和北极不断变化的资源利用系统（CONNECT）联合了挪威、加拿大、美国和俄罗斯的研究人员的专业知识，研究全球连接系统如何影响当地的可持续性、社会经济和生态实践。该小组特别调查了引入的采掘业、旅游业和通信技术对社区反应、干扰和生态系统变化的影响。这六个工作包利用了该团队在先前资助的努力下开发的数据集和研究方法，包括社区访谈、社会经济和政策分析、土地利用和植被图、采矿开发历史以及当地对土地利用和生态系统服务的看法。这些投入将以综合方式用于制定生态影响的模型和监测指标，并衡量全球联系对资源利用系统的影响。该项目将继续与28个社区合作，并在项目期间举办回访讲习班，分享进展。

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). Global connections and changing resource use systems in the Arctic (CONNECT) unites the expertise from researchers in Norway, Canada, the US, and Russia to investigate how globally connected systems influence local sustainability, socioeconomic, and ecological practices. In particular, the team investigates the effects of introduced extractive industries, tourism, and communications technologies on community responses, disturbances, and ecosystem changes. The six work packages utilize data sets and research methods developed by the team under previously funded efforts and include community interviews, socioeconomic and policy analyses, land use and vegetation maps, mining development histories, and local perceptions of land use and ecosystem services. These inputs will be used in an integrative fashion to develop model and monitoring indicators of ecological impacts and measure the effects of global connections on resource use systems. The project will continue its collaboration with 28 communities and conduct re-visit workshops during the course of the project to share progress.