Collaborative Research: Arctic Horizons: Social Science and the High North

合作研究：北极地平线：社会科学和高北地区

• 批准号: 1608912
• 负责人: Shelby Anderson
• 金额: $ 6.15万
• 依托单位: Portland 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: 2015-12-15 至 2017-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1608912&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Arctic; Horizons; Social

Over the past 15 years, the Arctic has experienced substantial social and environmental transformations. Some of these changes are on pace with predictions of the late 1990s, but others have occurred much more rapidly than expected. Many of the documented and anticipated shifts in the Arctic are linked to environmental change: changing sea ice and snow cover, coastal erosion leading to displacement of modern villages and destruction of preserved archaeological sites, questions of subsistence food security, increased shipping and oil exploration, with their associated economic impacts (positive and negative) and risk of oil spills, to name just a few. Many other changes in the Arctic are largely independent of changing climate: continued loss of Native languages, high rates of unemployment, domestic violence and substance abuse, and the increased influence of social media among and between isolated communities of the high north. Yet, while the North has always seemed remote and marginal to global or US national interests, Arctic people and environments are increasingly connected socially, economically, and environmentally to those living to the south. The potential for an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, for example, opens up possibilities for new shipping routes shifting economic costs and benefits for global markets, for expanded exploitation of the circumpolar basin?s fossil fuel and mineral resources, and for attendant new focus on the north as an economic and security zone of strategic and tactical importance. All of these potential transformations have impacts not only on the United States' northernmost communities, but also on the global and national economic, social, and cultural systems best studied by social scientists in interdisciplinary collaborations capable of providing information and strategies of need for policy development and community development. The National Science Foundation?s Arctic Social Sciences Program (ASSP) is the leading source of funding for U.S.-based social sciences research in the Arctic. Just as the Arctic has changed, Arctic social sciences have experienced substantial growth and development, transitioning from an emerging field of research to a well-established multidisciplinary research area; yet the research priorities for NSF?s Arctic Social Sciences program were last updated in 1999. The Arctic Horizons project will bring together members of the Arctic social science research and indigenous communities to reassess the goals, potentials, and needs of these diverse communities and ASSP within the context of a rapidly changing circumpolar North. A series of five topical and regional workshops held across the country will bring together approximately 150 western and indigenous scholars to discuss the future of Arctic social science research. Additional participation by the broader Arctic social sciences, indigenous science, and stakeholder communities will be solicited through an interactive web platform that will also share workshop and project outcomes, supported by special sessions at national and regional conferences. The results of the workshops and on-line input will be compiled at a final synthesis workshop with a report produced to describes the community's vision for the future of Arctic social science research. This re-envisioning process will help shape future Arctic social science research and inform Arctic economic, environmental, and political policy development.Arctic Horizons project provides a framework and process that will bring together the Arctic social science research and Arctic indigenous communities to reassess goals, potentials, and needs in the diverse disciplinary and transdisciplinary currents of social science research of the circumpolar North. A series of five regional workshops and one synthesis workshop will engage approximately 150 western and indigenous scholars in the re-visioning process. Additional participation by the broader Arctic social sciences, indigenous science, and stakeholder communities will be solicited through an interactive web platform that will also be used to share workshop and project outcomes (e.g. videos of speakers, workshop notes, copy of the report), as well as through special sessions at regional conferences (e.g. Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Arctic Science Summit Week, Association of American Geographers). Whenever possible, keynote addresses will be video live cast through the platform and preserved for convenient review. Dynamic embeddable data visualizations will present the running results of project analytics, including text analysis of associations in the transcripts of workshop discussions, participant survey results, citation surveys, and an analysis of all 737 NSF grants issued since 1981. The resulting community-based vision will inform research investments for Arctic social science research over the next decade. Arctic social sciences have experienced substantial growth and development over the past 15 years, transitioning from an emerging field of research to a well-established multidisciplinary research area since the last Arctic social sciences visioning workshop held in 1999. The project is the collaboration of five institutions, all of which have a strong history of supporting Arctic social science research (UAF and Brown) or are developing new programs that support Arctic social science research (UNI and PSU). The process will be overseen by a senior advisory panel that includes social scientists and indigenous community members. The project will leverage the broad research networks of the PIs to recruit participation from a diverse and wide-ranging group of early, mid and senior career scholars, ensuring gender and disciplinary equity and the participation of underrepresented groups. This will be achieved through targeted invitation to workshops, a promotional campaign for web input through electronic media, and through participant recruitment at conferences and meetings. The capstone event is a synthesis workshop where the information generated at each of the regional/topical workshops and the on-line input will be combined in a report on the research priorities collectively identified by the Arctic social sciences community.

过去15年里，北极经历了巨大的社会和环境变化。其中一些变化与 20 世纪 90 年代末的预测一致，但其他变化的发生速度比预期快得多。许多记录在案的和预期的北极变化都与环境变化有关：海冰和积雪的变化、海岸侵蚀导致现代村庄的迁移和保存完好的考古遗址的破坏、自给食品安全问题、航运和石油勘探的增加及其相关的经济影响（正面和负面）以及石油泄漏的风险，仅举几例。北极的许多其他变化在很大程度上与气候变化无关：土著语言的持续丧失、高失业率、家庭暴力和药物滥用，以及社交媒体在高北偏远社区之间的影响力不断增强。然而，尽管北方对于全球或美国的国家利益来说一直显得偏远且边缘，但北极人民和环境与生活在南方的人们在社会、经济和环境方面的联系日益紧密。例如，北冰洋日益无冰的潜力，为新航线开辟了可能性，改变了全球市场的经济成本和利益，扩大了环极地盆地化石燃料和矿产资源的开发，并随之将新的重点放在北方作为具有战略和战术重要性的经济和安全区。所有这些潜在的转变不仅对美国最北部的社区产生影响，而且对全球和国家的经济、社会和文化系统产生影响，社会科学家在跨学科合作中对此进行了最好的研究，能够为政策制定和社区发展提供所需的信息和战略。 美国国家科学基金会的北极社会科学计划 (ASSP) 是美国北极社会科学研究的主要资金来源。正如北极的变化一样，北极社会科学也经历了长足的增长和发展，从一个新兴的研究领域转变为一个成熟的多学科研究领域；然而，NSF 北极社会科学项目的研究重点最近一次更新是在 1999 年。北极地平线项目将汇集北极社会科学研究成员和土著社区，在快速变化的环北极背景下重新评估这些不同社区和 ASSP 的目标、潜力和需求。在全国范围内举办的五场专题和区域研讨会将汇集约 150 名西方和本土学者，讨论北极社会科学研究的未来。将通过一个互动网络平台征求更广泛的北极社会科学、本土科学和利益相关者社区的更多参与，该平台还将在国家和区域会议特别会议的支持下分享研讨会和项目成果。 研讨会的结果和在线输入将在最终综合研讨会上进行汇编，并生成一份报告，描述社区对北极社会科学研究未来的愿景。这一重新设想的过程将有助于塑造未来的北极社会科学研究，并为北极经济、环境和政治政策的发展提供信息。北极地平线项目提供了一个框架和过程，将北极社会科学研究和北极土著社区聚集在一起，重新评估北极圈社会科学研究的不同学科和跨学科潮流的目标、潜力和需求。 一系列五个区域研讨会和一个综合研讨会将吸引大约 150 名西方和本土学者参与重新规划过程。 将通过一个互动网络平台征求更广泛的北极社会科学、本土科学和利益相关者社区的更多参与，该平台也将用于分享研讨会和项目成果（例如演讲者视频、研讨会笔记、报告副本），以及通过区域会议的特别会议（例如阿拉斯加人类学协会年会、北极科学峰会周、美国协会） 地理学家）。只要有可能，主题演讲将通过平台进行视频直播并保存以方便回顾。动态嵌入式数据可视化将呈现项目分析的运行结果，包括研讨会讨论记录中关联的文本分析、参与者调查结果、引文调查以及对自 1981 年以来发放的所有 737 项 NSF 拨款的分析。由此产生的基于社区的愿景将为未来十年北极社会科学研究的研究投资提供信息。自 1999 年举办上一次北极社会科学愿景研讨会以来，北极社会科学在过去 15 年里经历了实质性的增长和发展，从一个新兴的研究领域转变为一个成熟的多学科研究领域。该项目是五个机构的合作，所有这些机构都有支持北极社会科学研究的悠久历史（UAF 和 Brown）或正在开发支持北极社会科学研究的新项目（UNI 和 Brown）。 电源）。 该过程将由一个包括社会科学家和土著社区成员的高级顾问小组监督。 该项目将利用 PI 广泛的研究网络，招募多元化、广泛的早期、中期和高级职业学者群体的参与，确保性别和学科公平以及代表性不足群体的参与。 这将通过有针对性地邀请参加研讨会、通过电子媒体开展网络投入宣传活动以及在大会和会议上招募参与者来实现。顶峰活动是一个综合研讨会，每个区域/专题研讨会产生的信息和在线输入将合并在一份关于北极社会科学界共同确定的研究优先事项的报告中。