CAREER: Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Impact on Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples' Livelihoods

职业：土地利用和土地覆盖变化对生物多样性和土著人民生计的影响

• 批准号: 2047940
• 负责人: Anthony Cummings
• 金额: $ 52.32万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Dallas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2047940&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Land; Use; Cover; Change

This CAREER award examines the drivers of fine-scale land-use and land-cover change and the impacts of these changes on biodiversity, ecosystem services and indigenous communities. Current methods to analyze biodiversity and ecosystem services use costly remotely sensed data at the spatial resolution of cities and urban centers that are not sufficient for analysis at a local scale. Working with Indigenous communities, this project develops novel remote sensing methods using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to collect data at finer spatial and temporal resolutions that enable the analysis of local land change processes while the changes are occurring. This project's use of co-production of knowledge of land-use and land-cover change identifies the processes that trigger land-use change and thereby makes a significant contribution to research on scaling up methods that inform sustainable global economic processes. The tightly integrated research and education plans coupled with a summer institute broaden participation of underrepresented students and provides exceptional training in STEM research methods. As land change scientists extend models for understanding the implications of change processes, it is essential to know how, when, and where the impacts of global level processes are manifested at local scales. To address these needs, this project catalogs change occurring at the local level using geospatial information technologies, including drones, and evaluates what forces drive change at the local level. Evaluation of local change processes will be completed in five different physical environments to determine whether and how policymakers respond to global-level drivers of change. This research fills a gap in the understanding of how local-level biodiversity, ecosystem services availability, and indigenous peoples' livelihood practices are shaped by forces located far from urban centers.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.

该职业奖研究了优质土地利用和土地覆盖变化的驱动力，以及这些变化对生物多样性，生态系统服务和土著社区的影响。当前分析生物多样性和生态系统服务的方法在城市和城市中心的空间分辨率上使用昂贵的远程感知数据，而这些数据不足以在当地规模上进行分析。该项目与土著社区合作，使用无人驾驶汽车（UAV）开发了新颖的遥感方法，以在更精细的空间和时间分辨率上收集数据，从而在发生变化时能够分析当地的土地变化过程。该项目使用对土地利用和土地覆盖变化知识的共同生产确定了触发土地利用变化的过程，从而为扩大可持续的全球经济过程的方法做出了重大贡献。紧密整合的研究和教育计划以及一个夏季学院扩大了代表性不足的学生的参与，并为STEM研究方法提供了非凡的培训。随着土地变化科学家扩展了了解变化过程含义的模型，必须知道如何，何时和何处表现出在本地尺度上表现出的影响，何时和何处。为了满足这些需求，该项目目录使用包括无人机在内的地理空间信息技术在本地层面发生变化，并评估什么力量在本地层面驱动的变化。对本地变化过程的评估将在五个不同的物理环境中完成，以确定政策制定者是否以及如何应对全球变化驱动力的驱动因素。这项研究填补了对地方水平的生物多样性，生态系统服务的可用性以及土著人民的生计实践的理解差异。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，这反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并通过评估有价值。