Collaborative Research Belmont Forum: VULnerability of Populations under Extreme Scenarios

贝尔蒙特合作研究论坛：极端情景下人群的脆弱性

• 批准号: 1624207
• 负责人: Mark Bush
• 金额: $ 44.98万
• 依托单位: Florida Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-15 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624207&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Belmont; Forum; VULnerability

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a six-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research. 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 organization provides funding for researchers from their country 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 a Collaborative Research Action, the six partner organizations have provided support for research projects that utilize a strong inter- and trans-disciplinary approach to examine climate, environmental, and related societal change in mountain regions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in a consortium of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that brings together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). This project seeks to use fossils, ancient and modern DNA samples from Morocco, Cameroon, South Africa, China, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, and modeling techniques to investigate how ecosystems in mountain ranges have changed over the past 21,000 years and to establish an index of vulnerability which can be used across different mountain ecosystems. This information will contribute to an understanding of how social and ecological changes may impact food security in these regions.

该奖项为参与由贝尔蒙特论坛六国全球变化研究倡议竞争性选出的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是由全球环境变化研究的世界主要和新兴资助者组成的团体。它旨在通过调整和调动国际资源，加速开展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。每个合作组织都为本国的研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨国界的资金需求。 这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持最好通过多国方法解决的全球相关主题的优秀研究，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。六个合作伙​​伴组织在合作研究行动中共同努力，为研究项目提供支持，这些项目利用强大的跨学科方法来研究山区的气候、环境和相关社会变化。该奖项支持美国研究人员与来自至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟进行合作，该联盟汇集了自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户（例如政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）。 该项目旨在利用来自摩洛哥、喀麦隆、南非、中国、厄瓜多尔、秘鲁、玻利维亚和巴西的化石、古代和现代 DNA 样本以及建模技术来研究山区生态系统在过去 21,000 年来的变化，并建立可用于不同山区生态系统的脆弱性指数。 这些信息将有助于了解社会和生态变化如何影响这些地区的粮食安全。