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，这些研讨会将采用复杂的系统框架来深入了解北极地区的系统动力学和整体弹性。弹性代表了一个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结合起来。这种整合需要解决与“新北极”快速环境变化相关的社会问题。各种专业知识将得到代表，研讨会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。这一系列的研讨会将采用一个复杂的系统框架来深入了解系统动力学和整体弹性，这可以定义为缓冲和适应压力和冲击的能力，从而导航甚至塑造变化。该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结合起来，这是解决“新北极”的社会问题所需要的。通过复杂系统方法整合多学科专业知识是在泛北极范围内开展融合研究的有力途径。此外，讲习班的迭代结构与当地社区的融合以及整合六个主题知识的计划将增强讲习班的趋同成果。土著学者和社区成员有意义地参与研讨会使该项目更加融合，因为它不仅是跨学科的科学，而且还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，通过复杂的系统方法和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.