Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Migration, Transformation and Sustainability

全球环境变化、环境退化和资源压力给全世界社会造成了前所未有的局面。 由于在应对这些挑战方面进展缓慢，人们越来越强调需要超越研究范围，并鼓励渐进式变革。应对与可持续性有关的挑战的传统知识和能力建设产生的积极影响有限;因此，越来越需要更多关于社会相互作用以及社会与自然环境相互作用方式的转变的基本知识。 社会变革是指深刻和持久的系统性变化，通常涉及社会、文化、技术、政治、经济和环境进程。需要一个全面和协调一致的研究计划，以促进对可持续发展转型的研究，并促进应对环境和社会挑战的新解决方案。该奖项支持美国研究人员参加一个由19个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛- NORFACE-ISSC竞争性选择的项目。 可持续发展转型（T2 S）是一项多边倡议，旨在支持有助于重构可持续发展研究广泛领域的研究项目。 知识的共同生产和研究问题的形成被认为是社会变革进程的关键，每个项目都有利益攸关方或社区伙伴的参与。 该倡议旨在发展社会所需的基本知识，以帮助向可持续发展转变，这是全世界重大的社会问题，对学术界和利益攸关方都具有重要意义。 T2 S计划旨在建立能力，克服碎片化，并通过培养跨越多个边界，学科界限以及与从业者和社会合作伙伴的持久研究合作，对社会和研究格局产生持久影响。这包括促进与世界上不经常参与大规模国际研究工作的地区，特别是低收入和中等收入国家开展新的研究合作。 该奖项提供的资金将用于支持美国参与者在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作，并将自然科学家，社会科学家和研究用户（例如，民间社会、非政府组织和行业）。 来自其他国家的参与者通过其国家供资组织获得资助。该项目旨在将对移民的全面见解融入到可持续发展转型的理论中。国内和国际移徙对个人、社会和景观都具有巨大的变革潜力。转型理论假设人口是静态的，没有认识到人口流动对社会和生态系统的积极和消极影响。 该奖项旨在扩大对可持续发展转型的认识，开发一个全面的移民可持续发展模型，并在地方、国家和国际范围内发展对可持续发展战略的见解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Global environmental change, environmental degradation and resource pressures have created unprecedented situations for societies worldwide. The slow progress on addressing these challenges has led to increasing emphasis on the need to go beyond the study and encouragement of incremental change. Conventional knowledge and capacity building to tackle the challenges associated with sustainability have had limited positive impacts; consequently, there is growing need for more fundamental knowledge on how transformations in the way societies interact both with each other and with the natural environment. Societal transformations refer to profound and enduring systemic changes that typically involve social, cultural, technological, political, economic and environmental processes. A comprehensive and concerted research initiative is needed that can boost research on transformations to sustainability and catalyze new kinds of solutions to environmental and social challenges. This award supports U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 19-country initiative through the Belmont Forum- NORFACE-ISSC. Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) is a multilateral initiative designed to support research projects that will contribute to re-structuring the broad field of sustainability research. Co-production of knowledge and research problem formulation is considered to be critical to the process of societal transformation and each project engages stakeholders or community-based partners. The initiative seeks to develop the fundamental knowledge societies require to help develop transformations to sustainability which are of significant social concern throughout the world and of great relevance to both academics and stakeholders. The T2S program aims to build capacity, overcome fragmentation and have a lasting impact on both society and the research landscape by cultivating durable research collaboration across multiple borders, disciplinary boundaries, and with practitioners and societal partners. This includes facilitating the development of new research collaborations with parts of the world which are not often involved in large-scale international research efforts, notably low- and middle-income countries. The funds provided in this award will be used to support U.S. participants to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., civil society, NGOs, and industry). Participants from other countries are funded through their national funding organizations. This project seeks to integrate comprehensive insights on migration into theories of transformation to sustainability. Both domestic and international migration has enormous transformative potential for individuals, societies and landscapes. Transformation theories assume static populations and fail to recognize both positive and negative impacts of the movement of people on societies and ecosystems. The objective is to expand knowledge of transformations to sustainability and develop a comprehensive migration-sustainability model, and develop insights on sustainability strategies at local, national and international scales.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.