Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Abandonment and rebound: Societal views on landscape- and land-use change and their impacts on water and soils (ABRESO)

该奖项为参与由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）发起的9国全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由超过55个国家的研究资助组织组成的联盟，致力于支持跨学科方法来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，加速提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。该奖项为美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作提供支持。研究小组将努力确定可持续的途径，以帮助减轻对自然资源日益增加的前所未有的压力，这些资源相互作用，为社会提供可持续的生命支持系统和基本利益，如粮食生产和水的质量和数量。将评价土地管理和城市化变化的影响，以制定可持续土壤和地下水管理备选办法，帮助建立和维持可持续的陆地生态系统。该项目旨在建立一个全球跨学科平台，以了解土地放弃对土壤和水资源可持续性的影响。土地弃置和随后的土地利用或土地覆盖变化可能对水资源产生深远的影响，因为临界带结构的变化决定了渗透、径流以及向地下水和地表水输送沉积物和氮的变化。项目团队将描述驱动土地放弃和随后的土地利用变化的社会和自然强迫功能；并量化这种弃置对水质的影响。该小组还将确定在理解影响方面的差距以及利益相关者所感知的差距，以便更好地理解和模拟土地利用变化。该小组将利用这些信息开发一个建模框架，在生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台的背景下评估各种土地利用和土地放弃情景的可持续性。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。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 9-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations representing over 55 countries 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 award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The research teams will work to identify sustainable pathways to help alleviate the increasing and unprecedented pressure on the natural resources that interact to provide sustainable life support systems and essential benefits to societies such as food production and water quality and quantity. The impacts of changes in land management and urbanization will be evaluated to develop sustainable soils and groundwater management options that will help create and maintain sustainable terrestrial ecosystems. The project seeks to develop a global transdisciplinary platform for understanding the impacts of land abandonment on sustainability of soil and water resources. Land abandonment and subsequent land use or land cover change can have profound implications for water resources, as the changing fabric of the Critical Zone dictates changes in infiltration, runoff, and the delivery of sediment and nitrogen to groundwater and surface waters. The project team will describe social and natural forcing functions that drive land abandonment and subsequent land use change; and quantify impacts on water quality due to this abandonment. The team will also identify gaps in understanding of the impacts and those perceived by stakeholders so that land use change can be better understood and modeled. The team will use this information to develop a modeling framework to assess sustainability of various land use and land abandonment scenarios in the context of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.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.