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，如清洁的水、森林、食物和药品。山地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峰会，该峰会将推动有关山区环境和人类社区未来发展轨迹的科学和实践知识。峰会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这些问题之间的联系。与会者将探讨如何将人、政策和科学结合起来，在气候变化面前建立复原力，促进变化，为山区环境和社会创造可持续、公平和安全的未来。土著人民和知识将在首脑会议和确定通往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系统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情况下，解决后covid时代世界的山区环境和社区可持续性问题。峰会将是一场混合会议，现场会议部分将在美国科罗拉多州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，世界各地的与会者可以在尼泊尔加德满都和秘鲁瓦拉兹等“区域性山地会议中心”亲自召开会议。对于那些不能或选择不旅行的人，将提供完全支持的在线选项。首脑会议的成果将包括：明确阐述的共同愿景和评估进展的指标；变革理论及相关“路线图”；跨不同行为者和部门的新伙伴关系；媒体产品;同行评议的出版物;首脑会议价值观宣言；并承诺实施一项行动计划，以实现可持续的山区未来。峰会将通过建立山地哨兵网络作为一个跨界组织，促进全球山地土著和西方科学家及利益相关者之间有意义和广泛的参与，帮助建立山区研究人员、实践者、企业家和利益相关者之间的合作。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。

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.