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理事会环境变化与社会委员会(BECS)的核心业务。该委员会自1989年以来一直以现在和以前的名称运作，通过促进对人类与自然环境相互作用的综合分析来促进科学和环境决策。BEC将与政府机构和其他赞助商合作，建立对人类与生物物理环境相互作用的理解；促进这一领域科学努力的连贯领域的发展；将社会和行为科学研究纳入环境科学和政策；促进行为、社会和决策科学；并通过应用这些科学来管理人与环境的相互作用，为社会带来好处。BEC将同时从自然科学和社会科学的角度对研究进行评估，重点是促进可概括的知识，以帮助决策者并提高联邦、州和地方各级的实践质量。BEC还将促进跨学科研究社区的发展，以应对日益认识到的全球环境问题需要以社会科学研究为基础的更多知识。由于它对尖端科学和政策应用的发展做出了响应和预测，以确定改善社会福祉的创新解决方案，BECS作为促进使用启发科学的国家资源，为决策者、利益相关者和社区提供信息，以应对无数环境变化挑战和机遇。环境变化与社会委员会是国家科学院的主要单位，通过提供一个论坛，将社会科学和自然科学在研究、规划和决策方面联系起来，促进人类活动与环境之间的相互作用的研究。BEC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、研讨会和各种外联机制来解决新出现的科学和政府关切问题。在获得该奖项支持的一段时间内，BECS将开发和监督活动，吸引更广泛的利益相关者，并作为联邦机构和其他政府和非政府决策者寻求跨学科综合方法来应对环境挑战和机遇的联络点。BEC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路线，如能源转型中的创新和这种转型的社会影响；食品、能源和水之间的联系；建设有弹性的低碳城市；以及环境变化条件下移民的转变。

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.