DISES: Co-producing knowledge to sustain pastoral socio-environmental systems: System feedbacks, future scenarios, and adaptive responses

DISES：共同生产知识以维持牧区社会环境系统：系统反馈、未来情景和适应性反应

• 批准号: 2206202
• 负责人: Meredith Welch-Devine
• 金额: $ 159.96万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2206202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISES; Co; producing; knowledge; sustain

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thriving family farms are critical to feeding the world, sustaining vibrant cultures, and protecting the environment, but they are under threat. In most regions, farms are being abandoned as children choose alternate careers due to increasing economic pressures, a changing climate, new pest and weed challenges, and shifting ideas of what constitutes a viable livelihood. There is an urgent need to understand the factors and relationships that allow pastoral systems to adapt to changing conditions and what factors allow small-scale farming to remain resilient in certain socio-environmental contexts. This project examines the complex linkages between climate, land management, landscape, and policy to learn how we can best support healthy pastoral systems through policy or other interventions. This project integrates social science, climate science, and plant and soil sciences to understand what variables are most likely to sustain small-scale pastoral systems. The team includes local farmers as equal partners in the work.Pastoral landscapes are complex socio-environmental systems (SES) in which the natural components of the system both support human livelihoods and culture and require human intervention for their continued existence. They cover almost 60% of the global landmass and may support as many as 500 million people. They are, however, facing increasing challenges, most notably climate change and declining interest in farming among youth. These challenges underscore the urgent need to understand the factors and relationships that support the ability of pastoral systems to adapt to changing conditions. This project explores a longstanding pastoral system that is an ideal setting for addressing these gaps in knowledge. Livestock grazing and human use of fire over thousands of years have created productive high-elevation meadows that support biodiversity and other ecosystem services, as well as human livelihoods and vibrant cultural practices related to pastoralism. Though subject to many of the same pressures confronting other pastoral systems, this SES has remained relatively robust over time, with one of the highest rates of new farmer installations in Europe. The overarching goals of this project are a) to understand the relationship among factors that influence farm transmission, continuity of pastoral practice, and the resilience of this landscape and its ecosystem functions, and b) to develop a process for the co-production of socio-environmental knowledge with pastoralists that improves scientific knowledge and strengthens local governance institutions. This research will address those goals by accomplishing two research objectives: 1) characterize the pastoral SES by measuring constituent environmental and social components, determining the historic and current controls on the system, and modeling relationships between system elements; and 2) analyze and model future changes in the system by integrating long-term socio-environmental data collection with climate and policy forecasts. This research builds on, and continues, collaborative transdisciplinary research that integrates local residents as full partners in the co-production of knowledge on pastoral system sustainability. Pastoralists have been full partners in the design and development of this proposed research since its inception.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.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thriving family farms are critical to feeding the world, sustaining vibrant cultures, and protecting the environment, but they are under threat.在大多数地区，由于经济压力的增加，气候变化，新的害虫和杂草挑战，以及关于构成可行的生计的事物的想法，农场被放弃了，因为儿童选择了替代职业。迫切需要了解允许牧师系统适应不断变化的条件的因素和关系，哪些因素允许小规模耕种在某些社会环境环境中保持韧性。该项目探讨了气候，土地管理，景观和政策之间的复杂联系，以了解我们如何通过政策或其他干预措施最好地支持健康的田园系统。该项目将社会科学，气候科学以及植物科学和土壤科学整合在一起，以了解哪些变量最有可能维持小规模的田园系统。该团队将当地农民包括在工作中作为平等伙伴。Pastoral景观是复杂的社会环境系统（SES），在该系统中，该系统的自然组成部分都支持人类的生计和文化，并且需要人类的持续存在。它们占全球陆地的近60％，可能支持多达5亿人。但是，他们面临着越来越多的挑战，最著名的是气候变化以及对青年耕种的兴趣下降。这些挑战强调了迫切需要了解支持牧师系统适应变化状况的能力的因素和关系。该项目探索了一个长期存在的牧师系统，该系统是解决这些知识差距的理想环境。数千年来，牲畜放牧和人类对火的使用创造了富有生产力的高海拔草地，以支持生物多样性和其他生态系统服务，以及人类的生计和与牧民有关的充满活力的文化实践。尽管受到其他田园系统面临的许多相同压力的影响，但随着时间的流逝，这种SES仍然相对强大，这是欧洲新农民装置的最高速度之一。该项目的总体目标是a）了解影响农场传播的因素之间的关系，该景观的连续性以及该景观及其生态系统功能的弹性，b）b）开发一个过程，以共同生产社会环境知识与牧民的共同生产，从而改善科学知识并增强地方治理机构。这项研究将通过实现两个研究目标来解决这些目标：1）通过测量组成的环境和社会组成部分来表征牧师SES，确定系统上的历史和当前控制，并建模系统元素之间的关系； 2）通过将长期社会环境数据收集与气候和政策预测相结合，分析和模拟系统的未来变化。这项研究基于并继续协作跨学科研究，该研究将当地居民纳入了整体伙伴，以共同生产有关牧师系统可持续性的知识。自成立以来，牧民一直是这项拟议研究的设计和开发的正式合作伙伴。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。