CoPe RCN: People on the Move in a Changing Climate

这个研究协调网络(RCN)将利用Sea Grant与当地社区值得信赖的长期关系，促进更广泛的科学企业、从业者、资源管理者和沿海利益攸关方之间的跨学科合作，以了解气候导致的人类流动性(包括流离失所、迁移和计划中的搬迁)、其社会经济后果及其在建立复原力方面的作用。到2100年，海平面上升可能会迫使数百万美国居民离开家园，但研究人员对气候引发的人类流动性对接收社区的影响关注相对较少。而且，似乎没有几个沿海社区做好准备，以应对因灾害而突然迁移的预计人口的涌入，以及对海平面上升逐渐造成的影响反应较慢。在理解人口模式的转变如何与潜在的社会经济、文化、政治和环境进程和资源相交方面，也存在关键的知识差距，这些进程和资源使人们能够或限制他们适应所在地方的能力，因为缺乏支持而迫使他们迁移，和/或由于其他区域的资源可用而鼓励搬迁。这个RCN将提供必要的科学基础设施，以开展基于地点的、受使用启发的关于气候引起的人类流动性的合作研究，以及区域定制的教育和参与战略。这个RCN部分模仿主要综合中心开发的方法，将：1)利用现有的数据集(包括人口、社会经济和环境数据集)以及法律和政策框架，促进对气候引起的人类流动性的分析和综合研究；2)促进跨自然和社会科学学科的协作解决问题，并通过让来自美国沿海社区的不同个人和利益相关者参与，扩大对研究和教育的参与；以及3)确定和定制现有产品和/或生成可用于建立社区复原力和适应能力的工具和知识。它将创建一个与当地相关的计划，通过利用Sea Grant被证明的能力来激励创新的、受使用启发的研究，从而在全国范围内实现这一计划。它将发展强大和可持续的研究人员网络，增加社区对研究的参与，确定以地点为基础的研究重点，发展新的教育和推广计划，并对气候变化与美国服务不足和代表性不足社区的社会经济、环境、政治和文化需求的交集产生细致入微的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Research Coordination Network (RCN) will leverage Sea Grant’s trusted, long-standing relationships with local communities to facilitate transdisciplinary collaborations among the broader scientific enterprise, practitioners, resource managers, and coastal stakeholders to understand climate-induced human mobility (inclusive of displacement, migration, and planned relocation), its socioeconomic consequences, and its role in building resilience. Sea level rise could force millions of U.S. residents from their homes by 2100, but researchers have paid relatively little attention to the impact of climate-induced human mobility on the receiving communities. And few coastal communities appear to be preparing for the projected influxes of people from sudden disaster-induced relocations and more slowly in response to the progressive impacts of sea level rise. Critical knowledge gaps also exist in understanding how shifts in population patterns intersect with underlying socioeconomic, cultural, political, and environmental processes and resources that either enable or constrain the ability of people to cope where they are, force them to move because support is lacking, and/or encourage relocation due to availability of resources in other regions. This RCN will provide the scientific infrastructure that is required to conduct place-based, use-inspired collaborative research on climate-induced human mobility, and regionally tailored educational and engagement strategies.Modeled partially after the approach developed by key synthesis centers, this RCN will: 1) foster analysis and synthesis research on climate-induced human mobility using existing data sets (including demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental datasets) and legal and policy frameworks; 2) stimulate collaborative problem-solving across disciplines of natural and social sciences, and broaden participation in research and education by engaging diverse individuals and stakeholders from U.S. coastal communities; and 3) identify and tailor existing products and/or generate usable tools and knowledge for building community resilience and adaptation. It will create a locally relevant program that is national in scale by leveraging Sea Grant’s demonstrated ability to stimulate innovative use-inspired research. It will develop robust and sustainable networks of researchers, increase community participation in research, identify place-based research priorities, develop new education and outreach programs, and produce a nuanced understanding of the intersection of climate change with the socioeconomic, environmental, political, and cultural needs of underserved and underrepresented communities in the U.S.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.