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来推动科学和环境决策。 BECS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;促进这一领域科学奋进的连贯领域的发展;将社会和行为科学研究纳入环境科学和政策;推进行为，社会和决策科学;并通过应用这些科学来管理人类与环境的相互作用，为社会带来好处。 BECS将从自然科学和社会科学的角度同时评估研究，重点是推进可推广的知识，以帮助决策者并提高联邦，州和地方各级的实践质量。 由于人们日益认识到，全球环境问题需要在社会科学研究的基础上增进知识，环境合作倡议还将促进发展一个跨学科研究团体。 因为它是响应和前瞻性的前沿科学和应用的政策，以确定创新的解决方案，以改善社会福祉的进步，BECS作为一个国家资源的使用启发科学的进步，告知决策者，利益相关者，环境变化和社会委员会作为国家科学院的一个职能，通过提供一个在研究、规划和决策中将社会科学和自然科学联系起来的论坛，促进人类活动与环境之间相互作用研究的主要单位。 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，研讨会和各种外展机制来解决新出现的科学和政府问题。 在获得该奖项支持的期间，BECS将开发和监督活动，与更广泛的利益相关者合作，并作为联邦机构和其他政府和非政府决策者寻求综合，跨学科方法的协调中心，以应对跨领域的环境挑战和机遇。BECS旨在推进跨学科研究的新路线，研究人类和自然系统的交叉点，如能源转型创新和这种转型的社会影响;粮食，能源和水之间的联系;建设有弹性和低碳的城市;以及环境变化条件下的移民转变。

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.