Charting Arctic and Global Interconnections: Workshops on Physical, Digital, and Social Infrastructures

绘制北极和全球互联：物理、数字和社会基础设施研讨会

• 批准号: 2002410
• 负责人: Michael Watts
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-01 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2002410&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Charting; Arctic; Global; Interconnections; Workshops

Arctic biophysical and climate systems are deeply intertwined with global processes, so dramatic changes in the Arctic region are likely to be felt elsewhere. For example, Arctic shifts may trigger impacts outside of the Arctic including tropical forests turning to savannahs, monsoon systems weakening, and coral reefs becoming dominated by algae, all of which will have extensive consequences for humans across the world. Limited knowledge exists about the interconnections between the Arctic’s changing environment and socioecological systems across the world. The diverse but uneven effects of Arctic regime shifts on ecosystems and cultural systems highlights the need for research to better understand these Arctic-global interconnections. This project gathers scientists and researchers for two workshops to address how transformations in the Arctic may affect human well-being in global environments, in light of the rapid changes undergoing in the Arctic. Understanding the Arctic and global interconnections opens up new understandings of networked environmental effects and the various infrastructures through which its resources and representations are produced and circulated. As such, this research advances systems-level understanding of links between the Arctic’s rapidly changing environmental, social, and cultural systems with other regions and networks across the world. Scholars are invited to consider theory and methods for studying such interconnections through environmental, infrastructural, and social dimensions. The workshops emphasize the increasing complexity of physical infrastructures, especially energy infrastructures, and digital infrastructures in shaping knowledge of environmental transformation and mediating social adaptation to such change both within and beyond the Arctic. One outcome will be an innovative research program that responds to the research priorities of the Arctic Social Science Program and the Navigating the New Arctic Big Idea about interconnections of Arctic changing systems and global contexts. A report titled “The Translocal Arctic” will be generated by conference participants and made publicly available.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.

北极的生物物理和气候系统与全球进程密切相关，因此北极地区的剧烈变化很可能波及其他地区。例如，北极的变化可能会引发北极以外的影响，包括热带森林变成热带草原，季风系统减弱，珊瑚礁被藻类占据，所有这些都将对世界各地的人类产生广泛的影响。对北极不断变化的环境与世界各地社会生态系统之间的相互联系了解有限。 北极政权转移对生态系统和文化系统的影响多种多样，但不均衡，突出了研究的必要性，以更好地了解这些北极-全球的相互联系。该项目召集科学家和研究人员参加两个讲习班，讨论北极的变化如何影响全球环境中的人类福祉，因为北极正在发生迅速变化。了解北极和全球的相互联系，开辟了对网络环境影响和各种基础设施的新理解，通过这些基础设施，北极的资源和代表性得以产生和流通。因此，这项研究推进了对北极快速变化的环境，社会和文化系统与世界其他地区和网络之间联系的系统级理解。学者们被邀请考虑通过环境，基础设施和社会层面研究这种相互联系的理论和方法。这些讲习班强调，在形成有关北极内外环境变化的知识和促进社会适应这种变化方面，有形基础设施，特别是能源基础设施和数字基础设施日益复杂。一个成果将是一个创新的研究计划，响应北极社会科学计划的研究重点和关于北极变化系统和全球背景相互联系的新北极大理念的导航。会议参与者将撰写一份名为“跨地域北极”的报告，并向公众公布。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。