Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Arctic Community Resilience to Boreal Environmental Change: Assessing Risks from Fire and Disease (ACRoBEAR)

该奖项为参与一个由55个国家发起的全球变化研究计划通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选定的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个研究资助组织联盟，专注于支持以跨学科方法应对全球环境变化的挑战和机遇。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国都在一个联合体内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这种方法有助于有效地利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的主题的优秀研究，最好是通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这一合作研究行动中，伙伴机构提供支持，培养全球自然(包括气候)、健康和社会科学家以及来自全球的利益攸关方组成的全球跨学科研究团队，以提高对气候、环境和健康途径的理解，以保护和促进健康。这些项目将对气候变化和变异性对以下方面的健康影响提供至关重要的新理解：1)食物的质量/数量；2)长期暴露在高温和湿度的增加/变化中；3)一系列传染病的分布和发病率的变化以及新病原体的出现。该奖项支持美国研究人员在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的财团中开展合作，以增加我们对气候、环境和健康之间复杂联系和途径的了解，以帮助解决社会面临的复杂挑战。该项目旨在预测和了解北极野火空气污染和病媒传播疾病带来的健康风险，以及整个区域社区对这些风险的复原力和适应性。这个项目的重点是一个关键的挑战，因为北极在最近几十年里迅速变暖，大约是全球平均气温上升速度的两倍，导致了这种环境的快速变化。北极地区受到前所未有的火灾活动的影响，导致高纬度城镇的空气质量不健康。这些地区的病媒传播疾病的发生也随着温度和湿度的快速变化而发生变化。火灾活动也通过改变病媒及其宿主的栖息地条件来影响这种疾病的风险。该项目将侧重于整合卫星和现场观测、建模、健康数据以及社区知识和利益攸关方对话，以了解社区的复原力和对这些不断变化的风险的反应。这些信息将帮助社区应对地球上变暖最快地区的环境、社会和治理挑战。这一奖项反映了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 award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support to foster global transdisciplinary research teams of natural (including climate), health and social scientists and stakeholders from across the globe to improve understanding of climate, environment and health pathways to protect and promote health. The projects will provide crucial new understanding into the health implications arising from the impacts of climate change and variability on; 1) the quality/quantity of food, 2) chronic exposure to increases/changes in heat and humidity and 3) changes in the distribution and incidence of a range of infectious diseases and emergence of novel pathogens. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries to increase our knowledge of the complex linkages and pathways between the climate, environment and health to help solve complex challenges that face societies. This project seeks to predict and understand health risks from wildfire air pollution and vector-borne disease in the Arctic, and the resilience and adaptability of communities across the region to these risks. This project focuses on a critical challenge as the Arctic has warmed rapidly over recent decades, at around twice the rate of global mean temperature increases, resulting in rapid changes to this environment. The Arctic has been affected by unprecedented fire activity, leading to unhealthy air quality in high latitude towns and cities. Vector-borne disease occurrence in these regions is also changing in response to rapid changes in temperature and moisture. The fire activity is also affecting this disease risk by altering the habitat conditions for vectors and their hosts. The project will focus on integrating satellite and in-situ observations, modelling, health data, and community knowledge and stakeholder dialogue to understand community resilience and response to these changing risks. This information will help communities address environmental, social, and governance challenges in the most rapidly warming region of the planet.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.