Convergence NNA: Adaptive Capacity and Resilience in the New Arctic: Identifying Pathways to Equitable, Desirable Outcomes for People and Nature Through Convergence

调查人员将举办一系列研讨会，采用复杂的系统框架，以深入了解北极地区的系统动力学和整体复原力。复原力代表一个社区缓冲和适应压力和冲击的能力，从而引导甚至改变形状。讲习班将把复原力理论和研究方法与土著社区的观察和实践结合起来。这种融合是必要的，以解决与新北极环境快速变化相关的社会关切。研讨会的参加者将包括北极土著学者和受气候影响的阿拉斯加社区的社区成员。这一系列研讨会将采用一个复杂的系统框架，以深入了解系统动力学和总体复原力，这可以被定义为缓冲和适应压力和冲击的能力，从而导航甚至形状变化。研讨会将把复原力理论和研究方法与土著社区的观察和实践相结合，这是解决新北极地区社会关切所必需的。通过复杂的系统方法融合多个学科的专业知识，是在泛北极范围内进行汇聚研究的一种强有力的方式。此外，包括当地社区在内的讲习班的迭代结构以及整合六个主题的知识的计划将加强讲习班的集中成果。土著学者和社区成员有意义地参加讲习班使该项目更加趋同，因为它不仅是跨学科的科学，而且寻找对北极和中纬度部落社区重要的问题和信息。该项目通过解决实现北极社区复原力的社会关切，通过复杂的系统方法整合不同的科学领域，并通过与土著学者和社区成员接触来促进融合。参与者所代表的专业知识范围包括生态系统科学、社会科学、气候学和系统科学。

The investigators will conduct a series of workshops that will employ a complex systems framework to gain insight into system dynamics and overall resilience in the Arctic region. Resilience represents the capacity of a community to buffer and adapt to stress and shocks, and thus navigate and even shape change. The workshops will integrate resilience theory and research methods with Indigenous community observations and practice. This integration is needed to address the societal concerns associated with the rapid pace of environmental change in the 'New Arctic.' Diverse expertise will be represented, and the workshop participants will include Arctic Indigenous scholars and community members from climate-affected Alaskan communities. This series of workshops will employ a complex systems framework to gain insight into system dynamics and overall resilience, which can be defined as the capacity to buffer and adapt to stress and shocks, and thus navigate and even shape change. The workshop will integrate resilience theory and research methods with Indigenous community observations and practice, which is needed to address the societal concerns in the 'New Arctic.' Merging expertise from multiple disciplines through a complex system approach is a robust way to conduct convergent research on a Pan-Arctic scale. Further, the iterative structure of the workshops with local community inclusion and the plan to integrate knowledge from six themes will enhance the convergent outcomes of the workshops. The meaningful inclusion of Indigenous scholars and community members in the workshops makes the project more convergent in that it is not only transdisciplinary science but seeks out issues and information important to Arctic and mid-latitude Tribal communities. This project promotes convergence by addressing the societal concern of achieving resilience for Arctic communities and by integrating diverse fields of science through a complex systems approach and through engagement with Indigenous scholars and community members. The range of expertise represented by the participants includes ecosystem science, social science, climatology and system science.