DISES: Governance across Space: Discovering Principles of Equity and Sustainability to Conserve Migratory Species within Telecoupled Social Environmental Systems

DISES：跨空间治理：发现公平和可持续性原则，以在远程耦合社会环境系统中保护迁徙物种

• 批准号: 2108391
• 负责人: Laura LopezHoffman
• 金额: $ 159.94万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2108391&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISES; Governance; across; Space; Discovering

Birds and bats often migrate over very long distances crossing international boundaries and countries with differing regulations and policies affecting their migrations. With the significant decline in migratory species it is important to understand the potential social and environmental factors that impact their journey and evaluate potential means to mitigate these declines. It is increasingly recognized that social and ecological processes in one place can systematically affect societies and ecosystems in distant locations. Connections that link these processes among such locations are known as telecouplings, and all connected locations are part of a telecoupled system. Such systems have influenced human societies throughout history. For example, in the late 1800s Austrian hunters protested when Italian farmers drained wetland habitats for migratory waterfowl, thereby impacting hunting in Austria. Recently, Asian demand for soybeans has led to deforestation and the disruption of Indigenous livelihoods in the Amazon. Many of the world’s environmental problems are now understood as phenomena of telecoupled systems, and the scientific tools now exist to quantify them. Because telecoupled systems often span vast distances, and cross multiple international boundaries, today’s major challenge is in developing appropriate governance systems. Addressing telecoupled environmental problems may require governance that links ecological and societal phenomena in one location with management in other locations (i.e., telecoupled governance). This award addresses this need through studying telecoupled systems of migratory birds and bats and the associated governance systems. The research will identify the conditions that lead to telecoupled governance. Then the research will explore if and when telecoupled governance results in more ecologically sustainable and societally equitable outcomes. Finally, the award will engage governmental and nongovernmental entities to develop practical approaches for incorporating the principles of equity and sustainability into conservation of migratory species. Students will be trained using week-long, immersive Science Communication Workshops at Biosphere 2. Researchers will engage local stakeholders, resource managers, and decision- makers through surveys and in-person and online interviews, focus groups and panels. The project outcomes will produce design principles for telecoupled governance with decision-makers and stakeholders at an interactive workshop in Mexico City at the conclusion of the project.The award uses a strong theoretical framework based on teleconnections and socio-ecological systems concepts as a foundation for convergence science that merges social science theory with applied environmental sciences and advances the new discipline of social-environmental systems. The award integrates current approaches to evaluate the governance of local socio-environmental systems with approaches that fully describe how these systems are socially and ecologically connected across space. In so doing, the investigators overcome weaknesses in existing social and environmental science research approaches and enable: (i) social science research that more accurately accounts for the teleconnected ecological structure of many socio-environmental systems, and (ii) environmental science research that more powerfully accounts for the cross-scale institutional and socio-economic factors that shape ecological and equity outcomes.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.

鸟类和蝙蝠经常跨越国际边界和影响其迁徙的不同法规和政策的国家进行很长的距离迁徙。随着迁徙物种的大幅减少，了解影响其迁徙的潜在社会和环境因素并评估缓解这些下降的潜在方法非常重要。人们越来越认识到，一个地方的社会和生态过程可以系统地影响远处的社会和生态系统。在这些位置之间链接这些过程的连接称为远程耦合，所有连接的位置都是远程耦合系统的一部分。这些系统在整个历史上都影响着人类社会。例如，在 1800 年代末，当意大利农民为迁徙水禽排空湿地栖息地时，奥地利猎人提出抗议，从而影响了奥地利的狩猎。最近，亚洲对大豆的需求导致了森林砍伐和亚马逊地区原住民生计的破坏。世界上的许多环境问题现在被理解为远程耦合系统的现象，并且现在存在可以量化这些问题的科学工具。由于远程耦合系统通常跨越很远的距离，并跨越多个国际边界，因此当今的主要挑战是开发适当的治理系统。解决远程耦合环境问题可能需要将一个地点的生态和社会现象与其他地点的管理联系起来的治理（即远程耦合治理）。该奖项通过研究候鸟和蝙蝠的远程耦合系统以及相关的治理系统来满足这一需求。该研究将确定导致远程耦合治理的条件。然后，研究将探讨远程耦合治理是否以及何时产生更加生态可持续和社会公平的结果。最后，该奖项将吸引政府和非政府实体制定实用方法，将公平和可持续性原则纳入迁徙物种保护中。学生将在生物圈 2 号接受为期一周的沉浸式科学传播研讨会的培训。研究人员将通过调查、面对面和在线访谈、焦点小组和小组与当地利益相关者、资源管理者和决策者互动。该项目的成果将在项目结束时在墨西哥城举行的互动研讨会上与决策者和利益相关者一起制定远程耦合治理的设计原则。该奖项使用基于远程连接和社会生态系统概念的强大理论框架作为融合科学的基础，将社会科学理论与应用环境科学相融合，并推进社会环境系统的新学科。该奖项将当前评估当地社会环境系统治理的方法与充分描述这些系统如何跨空间进行社会和生态联系的方法相结合。通过这样做，研究人员克服了现有社会和环境科学研究方法的弱点，并实现了：（i）社会科学研究更准确地解释了许多社会环境系统的远程连接的生态结构，以及（ii）环境科学研究更有力地解释了塑造生态和公平结果的跨尺度制度和社会经济因素。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已被 通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

项目成果

Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation

• DOI: 10.1111/conl.12920
• 发表时间: 2022-09
• 期刊: Conservation Letters
• 影响因子: 8.5
• 作者: Charles C. Chester;Aaron M. Lien;J. Sundberg;J. Diffendorfer;Columba González‐Duarte;B. Mattsson;R. Medellín;D. Semmens;W. Thogmartin;J. J. Derbridge-J.;L. López-Hoffman