The Moving Mountains Summit: Collaboratively Redefining the Future of Mountain Environments and Society

山区环境为世界上一半以上的人口提供了重要的资源，如清洁水、森林、食物和药品。 山区系统也面临着气候变化的一些最极端的影响。 该项目将支持移动山脉首脑会议，这一活动将促进关于山区环境和人类社区未来轨迹的科学和实践知识。首脑会议的与会者将参加研讨会，讨论粮食安全、生计、旅游和能源等关键问题以及它们之间的联系。与会者将探讨人们、政策和科学如何合作，在面对气候变化时建立复原力，并促进山区环境和社会实现可持续、公平和安全的未来。土著民族和知识将在首脑会议上以及在确定未来的道路方面发挥突出作用。因此，首脑会议将对土著知识、西方科学和其他知识体系之间的协同作用作出实质性的智力贡献。它还将扩大我们如何做科学的过程，并增加公众对科学过程的参与。 移动山脉峰会将利用科学、地方和土著知识、商业、政策和宣传的协同力量，建立和加强山区主要参与者之间的持久联系，并在面临气候变化加速影响的同时，解决后COVID世界的山区环境和社区可持续性问题。 峰会将是一个混合会议，在美国科罗拉多玄武岩的落基山研究所创新中心举行。对于那些不能参加科罗拉多会议的人，世界各地不同地点的与会者可以亲自召集在“区域会议山枢纽”，如加德满都，尼泊尔和秘鲁的瓦拉斯。一个完全支持的在线选项将提供给那些谁不能或选择不旅行。首脑会议成果将包括：一个明确阐述和共同的愿景，包括评估进展的指标;一个变革理论和相关的“路线图”;不同行为者和部门之间的新伙伴关系;媒体产品;同行审查的出版物;首脑会议的价值宣言;以及对实现可持续山区未来的行动计划的承诺。首脑会议将帮助山区研究人员、从业人员、企业家和利益攸关方之间建立合作，建立山区哨兵网络，作为一个跨越边界的组织，促进山区土著和西方科学家和利益攸关方之间有意义和广泛的参与，该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

Mountain environments provide critical resources – such as clean water, forests, food, and medicines – to over half of the world’s population. Mountain systems are also facing some of the most extreme effects of climate change. This project will support the Moving Mountains Summit, an event that will advance scientific and practical knowledge regarding the future trajectories of mountain environments and human communities. The Summit’s participants will take part in workshops to address key issues including food security, livelihoods, tourism, and energy and the connections among them. Participants will explore how people, policy, and science can team up to build resilience in the face of climate change, and catalyze changes toward a sustainable, equitable and secure future for mountain environments and societies. Indigenous peoples and knowledge will play a prominent role in the Summit and in identifying pathways toward the future. The Summit will thus make a substantive intellectual contribution to synergies among Indigenous knowledge, Western science, and other knowledge systems. It will also expand the process for how we do science and increase public participation in the scientific process. The Moving Mountains Summit will leverage the synergistic power of science, local and Indigenous knowledge, business, policy and advocacy to build and strengthen enduring links between key players in mountains and address mountain environmental and community sustainability in the post-COVID world while facing accelerating effects of climate change. The Summit will be a hybrid meeting with the in-person portion taking place at the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Innovation Center in Basalt, Colorado, USA. For those who cannot attend the Colorado meeting, participants in different locations around the world can convene in-person at ‘regional meet-up mountain-hubs’ such as Kathmandu, Nepal and Huaraz, Peru. A fully supported online-only option will be available for those who are not able or choose not to travel. Summit outcomes will include: a clearly articulated and shared vision with metrics to assess progress; a theory of change and related “road map”; new partnerships across diverse actors and sectors; media products; peer-reviewed publications; a Summit Declaration of Values; and commitments to an Action Plan towards sustainable mountain futures. The Summit will help build collaborations among mountain researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and stakeholders by establishing the Mountain Sentinels network as a boundary spanning organization for meaningful and broad engagement among mountain Indigenous and western scientists and stakeholders, globally.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.