Standard: Collaborative Research: Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM in Collaborations between Climate Change Decision-Support Organizations and Indigenous Peoples

标准：合作研究：在气候变化决策支持组织和原住民之间的合作中培育道德 STEM 文化

• 批准号: 1540314
• 负责人: Kyle Whyte
• 金额: $ 44.99万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 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: 2015-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1540314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Standard; Collaborative; Research; Cultivating; Cultures

The National Climate Assessment of the U.S. Global Change Research Program shows that the health, prosperity and welfare of members of U.S. federally-recognized Tribes are already or will be affected by climate change impacts that range from sea-level rise to shifting precipitation patterns to increased frequencies of extreme weather events. STEM fields in the area of climate science provide a number of tools that Tribal decision-makers can use to understand historic climate change trends, model future scenarios for strategic planning, and determine what indicators in the environment should be monitored now for keeping on top of changes. The U.S. President's State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience recommended that the U.S. federal government "Provide actionable data and information on climate change impacts and related tools and assistance to support decision-making at all levels." Over 75 organizations in the U.S. - mostly federally-funded - aim to improve the climate change preparedness of decision-makers, and include organizations such as the Climate Science Centers of the U.S. Geological Survey and the Regional Integrated Sciences + Assessments (RISA) Centers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Yet, typically relationships between scientific organizations and Tribes can be strained by crucial ethical issues. If not worked out between the parties, the presence of these ethical issues can derail potential collaboration in ways that ultimately prevent Tribes from having fair opportunities to benefit from scientific resources. This project seeks to understand the range of practices that climate science organizations employ to prepare their staff for ethical issues that will occur when engaging with Tribes and to evaluate the perceptions of the effectiveness of these practices from organizational and Tribal perspectives. The project will support better collaboration between governmental and nongovernmental organizations in the U.S. and Tribes. The project will improve the government-to-government relationship and the U.S. federal trust responsibility for Tribes, increase the ability of Tribes to work with non-federal nonprofit groups, and create knowledge that will build awareness of how Tribal self-determination and sovereignty can be advanced through collaboration with decision-support organizations. The research will be carried out as a collaboration between Michigan State University and the College of Menominee Nation Sustainable Development Institute. Specifically, the research is using a survey instrument to identify the range of activities that scientific organizations have undertaken that would fall under cultivating cultures of ethical STEM, find out what has been learned by these organizations and the Tribes they partner with, and rank the organizational and Tribal perceptions of the effectiveness of the various activities. On the basis of these findings, and in collaboration with these organizations and Tribes, the project will create a set of recommendations and case studies for moving forward and design evaluation criteria for assessing the long-term impact of old and new practices. This project will be evaluating whether particular non-conventional forms of ethical culture in decision-support organizations have actually led to better STEM support in collaborations with Tribes. The research is expected to generate knowledge about what the range of non-conventional activities are that support cultures of ethical STEM; the research will also make headway in comparing the desired outcomes with the outcomes perceived by the Tribes to have improved or detracted from collaboration. These findings will help to fill a major gap in literatures pertaining to cultures of ethical STEM because there is little information comparing non-conventional activities geared at improving interactions between STEM-based decision-support organizations and Tribes.

美国对全球变化研究计划的国家气候评估表明，美国联邦认可部落成员的健康，繁荣和福利已经受到气候变化影响的影响，从海平面上升到变化的降水模式到增加极端天气事件的频率。气候科学领域的STEM领域提供了许多工具，部落决策者可以使用这些工具来了解历史性的气候变化趋势，模拟战略规划的未来场景，并确定现在应监控环境中的哪些指标，以保持最大的变化。美国总统的州，地方和部落领导人的气候准备和弹性工作组建议美国联邦政府“提供可行的数据和有关气候变化影响以及相关工具以及相关工具的信息，以支持各级决策。”美国超过75个组织（主要是联邦政府资助）旨在改善决策者的气候变化准备，并包括美国地质调查局的气候科学中心和地区综合科学 +评估（RISA）等组织的国家海洋和大气管理中心。然而，通常，科学组织和部落之间的关系可能会因关键的道德问题而紧张。如果双方之间没有解决，这些道德问题的存在可能会以最终阻止部落从科学资源中受益的公平机会的方式使潜在的合作脱轨。该项目旨在了解气候科学组织采用的一系列实践，以准备工作人员，以解决与部落互动并从组织和部落的观点评估这些实践有效性的看法。该项目将支持美国政府和非政府组织与部落之间的更好合作。该项目将改善政府到政府的关系以及美国对部落的联邦信任责任，提高部落与非联邦非营利组织合作的能力，并创造知识，从而通过与决策支持组织的合作来提高对部落自决和主权的认识。这项研究将作为密歇根州立大学与Menominee Nation Conture Development Institute之间的合作进行。具体而言，这项研究是使用调查工具来确定科学组织所做的一系列活动，这些活动将属于培养道德茎的文化，找出这些组织和与他们合作的部落所学到的知识，并对组织和部落对各种活动有效性的看法进行排名。根据这些发现，并与这些组织和部落合作，该项目将创建一系列建议和案例研究，以推进和设计评估标准，以评估新老实践的长期影响。该项目将评估决策支持组织中特定的非规定道德文化形式是否确实导致了与部落合作的更好的STEM支持。该研究有望产生有关支持道德​​茎文化的非规定活动范围的知识；这项研究还将取得进展，将所需的结果与部落所认为的结果改善或削弱协作的结果进行比较。这些发现将有助于填补与道德茎文化有关的文献的主要差距，因为比较旨在改善基于STEM的决策支持组织和部落之间相互作用的非规定活动的信息很少。