Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Negotiating Ocean Conflicts among RIvals for Sustainable and Equitable Solutions

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出色研究，最好通过多国方法来解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。该项目侧重于海洋可持续性的一个关键问题。海洋为多个海洋部门和利益攸关方提供资源和生态系统服务，海洋可持续发展的目标是公平和可持续地利用这些资源和服务。这意味着在不断增长的需求背景下，同时实现经济发展(蓝色增长)、环境可持续性、社会公平和跨越空间和时间的包容性。各部门和利益攸关方的需要和行动往往相互交叉，导致冲突。该项目旨在制定和实施定性建模战略，以解决各种海洋冲突。该项目将调查位于三个收入水平不同的海洋地区的六个案例，这些案例的特点是快速的生态和/或社会变化，如海洋变暖、酸化或资源开采、城市化、工业发展。该项目将在每个案例研究中评估这些海洋冲突的起源、驱动因素和缓解策略，其中社会和生态压力的不同组合以及权衡决定引发海洋冲突。案例研究产生的数据将用于图形可视化，构建关于冲突的不同叙述，最终将促进持久的公平资源分配和公正的过渡，以实现可持续的海洋管理。该项目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.This project focuses on a critical issue in ocean sustainability. The ocean provides resources and ecosystem services to multiple marine sectors and stakeholders and the goal of ocean sustainability is to accomplish a fair and sustainable use of these resources and services. This means simultaneously achieving economic development (blue growth), environmental sustainability, social equity and inclusion across space and time, in a context of growing demands. Often, the needs and actions of the various sectors and stakeholders are at cross purposes to one another resulting in conflict. This project seeks to develop and implement qualitative modeling strategies to address various ocean conflicts. The project will investigate six case studies located in three ocean regions with diverse income levels and characterized by rapid ecological and/or social change such as ocean warming, acidification or resource exploitation, urbanization, industrial development. The project will assess the origin, drivers, and mitigation strategies of these ocean conflicts in each case study where a different combination of social and ecological pressures together with trade-off decisions trigger ocean conflicts. Data produced from the case studies will be used for graphic visualizations that construct different narratives about the conflict that will ultimately promote long lasting equitable resource allocations and impartial transitions to achieve sustainable ocean management. The project 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.