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

该奖项为参与由55个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛发起的全球变化研究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的联盟，致力于支持跨学科方法来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，加速提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时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，伙伴机构共同提供支持，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，包括保护和可持续利用海洋、海洋和海洋资源以促进可持续发展。这一复杂的挑战要求项目采用综合、跨学科和跨部门的方法，将自然科学和社会科学以及政策制定者、资源管理者、行业、公民和其他社会伙伴结合起来。该奖项为美国研究人员与至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟合作提供支持，以增加我们对加速可持续利用海洋和尽量减少全球变化影响所需的复杂联系和途径的认识。MULTI-FRAME将通过评估海洋综合利用在现实世界挑战中的潜在影响，重点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上接近的两个或两个以上使用者有意共同使用海洋空间和资源。它代表一个或多个用户包容性地共享资源，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效益，有助于更可持续地利用海洋资源。该项目汇集了一个跨学科的国际研究联盟，拥有海洋规划、生态学、利益相关者参与、价值链和可持续性分析、保护和决策分析等方面的专业知识。由学者、非政府和私营部门研究人员组成的团队将共同努力，在5个不同的地理位置对海洋的多种用途进行批判性分析，以确定促进可能存在利益冲突的服务同时使用海洋区域的潜在途径。MULTI-FRAME将使地方和国家层面的广泛利益攸关方受益，包括地方社区、政府、海洋规划机构以及地方和国家决策者，通过增加可持续海洋多用途实践的知识基础，帮助改善和促进蓝色（海洋）经济，同时保护海洋空间和资源。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.