Core Support for the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) of the National Academies

该奖项将继续支持美国国家科学院国家研究委员会环境变化与社会委员会（BECS）的核心业务。自1989年以来，该委员会一直以其当前和以前的名称运作，通过促进对人类与自然环境相互作用的综合分析，推进科学和环境决策。BECS将与政府机构和其他赞助者合作，建立对人类与生物物理环境相互作用的理解；促进本领域内连贯的科学研究领域的发展；将社会和行为科学研究与环境科学和政策相结合；推进行为科学、社会科学和决策科学；并通过应用这些科学来管理人类与环境的相互作用，为社会带来利益。BECS将同时从自然科学和社会科学的角度评估研究，重点是推进可推广的知识，以帮助决策者，提高联邦、州和地方各级的实践质量。BECS还将促进跨学科研究社区的发展，以回应人们日益认识到全球环境问题需要基于社会科学研究的更多知识。由于BECS对前沿科学的发展做出了回应和预测，并将其应用于政策中，以确定改善社会福祉的创新解决方案，因此BECS作为国家资源，促进使用启发型科学的发展，为决策者、利益相关者和社区提供信息，应对无数的环境变化挑战和机遇。环境变化与社会委员会作为美国国家科学院的主要单位，通过提供一个论坛，将社会科学与自然科学在研究、规划和决策方面联系起来，推进人类活动与环境之间相互作用的研究。BECS将努力整合社会、行为和自然科学知识，通过研讨会、共识研究、半年度会议、专题讨论会和各种外展机制来解决新兴的科学和政府问题。在此期间，BECS将开发和监督活动，与更广泛的利益相关者接触，并作为联邦机构和其他政府和非政府决策者寻求综合、跨学科方法的焦点，以应对跨领域的环境挑战和机遇。BECS的目标是在人类和自然系统的交叉点上推进跨学科研究的新领域，如能源转型的创新和这种转型的社会影响；食物、能源和水之间的联系；建设有韧性的低碳城市；以及在环境变化的条件下移民的变化。

This award will continue support for core operations of the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. This board has functioned under its current and previous names since 1989 to advance science and environmental decision making by promoting integrated analysis of the human interactions with the natural environment. BECS will work with government agencies and other sponsors build understanding of human interactions with the biophysical environment; contribute to the development of a coherent field of scientific endeavor in this area; integrate social and behavioral science research into environmental science and policy; advance the behavioral, social, and decision sciences; and provide benefits to society through the application of these sciences to manage human-environment interactions. BECS will evaluate research simultaneously from the perspectives of the natural and social sciences with a focus on advancing generalizable knowledge to assist decision makers and improve the quality of practices at the federal, state, and local levels. BECS also will facilitate the development of an interdisciplinary research community in response to an increased realization that global environmental issues require enhanced knowledge based on social science research. Because it is responsive to and anticipatory in the advancement of cutting-edge science and application to policy to identifying innovative solutions to improve societal wellbeing, BECS serves as a national resource for the advancement of use-inspired science to inform decision makers, stakeholders, and communities addressing a myriad of environmental change challenges and opportunities.The Board on Environmental Change and Society functions as the National Academies' primary unit for advancing research on the interactions between human activities and the environment by providing a forum for linking the social and natural sciences in research, planning, and decision making. BECS will strive to integrate social, behavioral, and natural science knowledge to address emerging scientific and governmental concerns through workshops, consensus studies, semi-annual meetings, symposia, and a variety of outreach mechanisms. Over the period to be supported with this award, BECS will develop and oversee activities, engage a greater breadth of stakeholders and serve as a focal point toward which federal agencies and other governmental and non-governmental decision makers look to for integrated, trans-disciplinary approaches to cross cutting environmental challenges and opportunities. BECS aims to advance new lines of interdisciplinary research on topics at the intersection of human and natural systems such as innovation in energy transitions and the social implications of such transitions; the nexus between food, energy, and water; building resilient and low-carbon cities; and shifts in migration under conditions of environmental change.