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

研究人员将举办一系列研讨会，采用复杂的系统框架，深入了解北极地区的系统动态和整体复原力。复原力代表着社区缓冲和适应压力和冲击的能力，从而引导甚至塑造变化。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相结合。这种整合是必要的，以解决与“新北极”环境变化的快速步伐相关的社会问题。' 将代表不同的专业知识，研讨会的参与者将包括北极土著学者和来自受气候影响的阿拉斯加社区的社区成员。这一系列讲习班将采用一个复杂的系统框架，以深入了解系统动态和总体复原力，这可以被定义为缓冲和适应压力和冲击的能力，从而引导甚至塑造变化。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”社会问题所必需的。“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聚合研究的一种强大方式。此外，将地方社区纳入讲习班的迭接结构和整合六个专题知识的计划将加强讲习班的趋同成果。 土著学者和社区成员有意义地参与讲习班，使该项目更加趋同，因为它不仅是跨学科科学，而且寻求对北极和中纬度部落社区重要的问题和信息。该项目通过解决北极社区实现复原力的社会问题，并通过复杂的系统方法以及通过与土著学者和社区成员的接触整合不同的科学领域，促进融合。与会者所代表的专业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.