Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: ClimateWIse: Climate-Smart Watershed Investments in the Montane Tropics of South America

该奖项为美国研究人员参与一个项目提供支持，该项目是通过贝尔蒙特论坛由六国全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个世界性的团体吗？全球环境变化研究的主要和新兴资助者。它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴组织都为本国的研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。 这一方法有助于有效地利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。六个伙伴组织在合作研究行动中共同努力，为利用强有力的跨学科和跨学科方法来研究气候，环境，和相关的社会变革。该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够与来自至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成联盟，并将自然科学家，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）。 在整个南美洲，数百万人依赖高海拔水源的水，这些水源正受到土地使用和环境变化的越来越大的压力。 该项目旨在通过提高对热带山区土地使用和环境变化的水文影响的科学认识，加强基于生态系统服务的管理的科学基础，并促进整个区域水用户的成果，来加强可持续水管理。研究结果将直接用于南美洲内外的水资源管理。

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). Throughout South America, millions of people depend on water from high-elevation water sources, which are under increasing pressure from land-use and environmental change. This project seeks to enhance sustainable water management by improving scientific understanding of the hydrologic impacts of land-use and environmental changes in tropical mountains, increasing the scientific foundation for ecosystem services-based management, and advancing outcomes for water users throughout the region. The findings will be of direct use for water management within and beyond South America.