Collaborative Research: Forging Collaboration and Encouraging Research on the Arctic Economy

北冰洋前所未有的冰融化正在打开一个“新海洋”，为新的和扩大的经济机会创造潜力。迄今为止，关于发展北极经济及其对北极社会、文化和生态系统的潜在影响的研究还很少。该奖项将支持一个由环境、自然资源、国际、金融和生计经济学家组成的研讨会，讨论不断变化的北极经济，以及经济研究如何有助于我们理解这些变化。本次研讨会形成的研究议程在其他地区也具有相关性；虽然北极存在许多独特的问题，但平衡经济利用和环境健康的挑战与世界各地沿海地区面临的挑战相似。该奖项将支持一个小型探索性研讨会，以确定与北极有关的经济研究议程。该项目将a)确定关键的研究问题和适当的方法，b)确定现有数据系统中需要为研究和政策目的填补的空白，以及c)形成专家网络的核心，这将改善学者合作的机会，并鼓励更多的专业期刊文章和会议演讲。在为期两天的讨论中，10-12位专家将回答一系列问题，这些问题将在研讨会开始前发送给与会者，并对一篇旨在激发不同经济研究领域讨论的委托论文做出回应。这些领域包括区域、环境、自然资源、国际、金融和生存经济学。讲习班还将包括实践者界的代表，他们了解与政策有关的重要问题，这些问题将受益于经济研究；经济研究的潜在资助者；以及一位北极生态学家，协助建立环境与经济之间的联系。该活动将在加州蒙特雷举行，由蓝色经济中心主办。

Unprecedented ice melt in the Arctic Ocean is opening a "new ocean," creating the potential for new and expanded economic opportunities. To date, there has been little research on developing Arctic economies and the potential effects on the social, cultural, and ecological system of the Arctic. This award would support a workshop of environmental, natural resource, international, finance, and subsistence economists to discuss changing Arctic economies and how economic research can contribute to our understanding of these changes. The research agenda shaped during this workshop has relevance in other regions; while there are many unique issues in the Arctic, the challenges of balancing economic uses and environmental health are similar to those being addressed in coastal regions around the world. This award will support a small exploratory workshop to define an agenda for economic research related to the Arctic. The project will a) define key research issues and appropriate methodologies, b) identify gaps in existing data systems that need to be filled for research and policy purposes, and c) form the nucleus of a network of experts that will improve the opportunities for scholars to collaborate and encourage more professional journal articles and conference presentations. Over two days of discussions, 10-12 experts will address a set of questions that will be sent to attendees in advance of the workshop, and respond to a commissioned paper intended to stimulate the discussions from different fields of economic research. These fields include regional, environmental, natural resource, international, finance, and subsistence economics. The workshop will also include representatives from the practitioner community with knowledge of the important policy-relevant questions that would benefit from economic research; potential funders of economic research; and an Arctic ecologist to assist with making the linkages between the environment and economics. The event will be held in Monterey, California, and hosted by the Center for the Blue Economy.