Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Assessment Framework for Successful Development of Viable Ocean Multi-use Systems (Multi-Frame)

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。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的专题进行出色的研究，最好是通过多国办法加以解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。在这项合作研究行动中，伙伴机构提供了支持，以培养全球跨学科研究团队，以解决海洋可持续性方面的关键问题，包括海洋和海洋资源的养护和可持续利用，以促进可持续发展。这一复杂的挑战要求这些项目采用综合、跨学科和跨部门的方法，并将自然科学和社会科学以及政策制定者、资源管理者、行业、公民和其他社会合作伙伴聚集在一起。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，以增加我们对加快海洋可持续利用和将全球变化的影响降至最低所需的复杂联系和途径的了解。多框架将侧重于通过评估海洋综合利用在现实世界挑战中的潜在影响，评估实现可持续和公平利用海洋的途径。多用途概念是指地理位置相近的两个或两个以上使用者有意联合使用海洋空间和资源。它代表了一个或多个用户对资源的包容性共享，可通过减少空间压力、为社会经济发展创造新的机会和提供环境惠益，促进海洋资源的更可持续利用。该项目汇集了一个跨学科的国际研究联盟，其专长包括海洋规划、生态、利益攸关方参与、价值链和可持续性分析、保护和决策分析。由学者、非政府组织和私营部门研究人员组成的小组将共同努力，对5个不同地理位置的海洋综合利用情况进行重要分析，以确定促进可能存在利益冲突的服务机构同时利用海洋区域的潜在途径。多框架将通过增加可持续海洋多用途实践的知识库，帮助改善和促进蓝色(海洋)经济，同时保护海洋空间和资源，使广泛的地方和国家层面的利益相关者受益，包括当地社区、政府、海洋规划机构和地方和国家决策者。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 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 to address critical issues in ocean sustainability including, conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. This complex challenge required that the projects utilized integrated, transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approaches and bring together natural and social sciences as well as policymakers, resource managers, industries, citizens and other societal partners. 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 needed to accelerate sustainable use of oceans and minimize the effects from global change. MULTI-FRAME will focus on evaluating pathways toward a sustainable and equitable use of oceans by assessing the potential impact of ocean multi-use in real world challenges. The multi-use concept refers to intentional joint use of ocean space and resources by two or more users in close geographic proximity. It represents inclusive sharing of resources by one or more users which can contribute to a more sustainable use of ocean resources by reducing spatial pressures, creating new opportunities for socio-economic developments and providing environmental benefits. The project brings together a transdisciplinary, international research consortium with expertise ocean planning, ecology, stakeholder engagement, value chain and sustainability analysis, conservation and decision analysis. The team of academics, non-governmental and private sector researchers will work together to provide a critical analysis of ocean multi-use, in 5 different geographic locations, to identify potential pathways to promote simultaneous use of ocean areas by services that may have conflicting interests. MULTI-FRAME will benefit a broad range of local and national-level stakeholders, including local communities, government, marine planning agencies, and local and national decision-makers by increasing the knowledge base of sustainable ocean multi-use practices to help improve and foster the blue (ocean) economy while preserving ocean space and resources.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.