The Global Land Programme (GLP): A key global research network of the Future Earth Initiative for Global Sustainability

土地是解决关键的社会和环境问题的纽带。社会在全球范围内对土地利用做出的选择与社会福祉密切相关。作为一个国际网络，全球土地方案(GLP)处于独特的地位，通过消除障碍，吸引所有利益攸关方，并确定通过协作的使命驱动的科学进程制定的解决方案，来应对这些重大挑战。普洛斯将来自全球各地的陆地系统科学家聚集在一起，解决广泛的问题，促进国际科学界的积极合作，推动具体的尖端研究问题和合成活动；新产品、工具和数据；以及具有社会相关性的解决方案，为世界各地的社会带来变革性的好处。能力建设努力将促进土地系统科学领域更多样化、更具全球竞争力的劳动力队伍及其对全球变化研究的贡献，在寻求答案的过程中与政策和实践者社区的联系将使产生影响的可能性成倍增加。普洛斯将与感兴趣的各方和决策者接触，了解他们的知识需求，以解决美国全球变化研究计划(USGCRP)提出的应对全球变化挑战的优先研究和信息需求，产生可操作的知识，支持土地系统的可持续发展转型。普洛斯的使命是将科学创新与社会相关性联系起来，并利用基于地点的研究来促进对全球变化的模式和进程以及全球政策环境中的相关辩论的综合理解。在普洛斯的这一总体战略背景下，国际方案办公室(IPO)将能够：1)制定议程并促进土地系统科学(LSS)的综合；2)在世界范围内制作尖端的土地系统科学；3)宣传和支持基于科学的土地政策；以及4)建设LSS社区的能力，以提供包容性的、面向解决方案的科学。普洛斯研究人员--成员个人和集体在实现这些目标方面有双重任务。首先，他们将进一步发展建模、监测、案例研究和综合的方法核心能力。第二，通过普洛斯“机构”(例如，工作组、节点办公室、早期职业网络)，成员将在知识建设方面进行创新，与非科学利益攸关方接触，以最大限度地提高实现可持续土地系统的有效性。普洛斯从一开始就将早期职业科学家纳入我们的培训和劳动力发展方案，并通过提供持续的指导和阶梯，普洛斯将吸引来自全球南方和全球北方边缘化社区的年轻学者的大力参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Land is at the nexus of addressing crucial societal and environmental problems. The choices that societies make about land use globally are closely linked to societal well-being. As an international network, Global Land Programme (GLP), is uniquely positioned to address these grand challenges through removing barriers, engaging all stakeholders, and identifying solutions developed through collaborative mission-driven science processes. GLP brings land system scientists together from around the globe to tackle broad questions, enabling engaged collaboration across the international science community and advancing specific cutting-edge research questions and synthesis activities; new products, tools, and data; and societally relevant solutions with transformative benefits for societies worldwide. Capacity building efforts will catalyze a more diverse, globally competitive workforce in land system science and their contributions to global change research, and connection to policy and practitioner communities in the pursuit of answers multiplies the likelihood of impact. GLP will engage with interested parties and decisionmakers to understand their knowledge needs to solve what the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has framed as priority research and information needs for addressing the challenges of global change, generating actionable knowledge in support of sustainability transformations in land systems. The mission of GLP entails bridging scientific innovation with societal relevance and employs place-based research to feed synthesis-understandings of the patterns and processes of global change and related debates in global policy settings. Within this overall strategic setting of the GLP, the International Programme Office (IPO) will enable: 1) Setting agendas and facilitating synthesis in Land Systems Science (LSS); 2) Production of cutting-edge LSS worldwide; 3) Inform and support science-based policy on land; and 4) Building capacity of the LSS community to deliver inclusive, solutions-oriented science. GLP researchers-members, individually and collectively, have a twofold task in the achievement of these objectives. First, they will further develop the methodological core competencies of modeling, monitoring, and case study research and synthesis. Second, through the GLP ‘bodies’ (e.g., working groups, nodal offices, early career network) members will innovate in knowledge-building, engaging with non-scientific stakeholders to maximize effectiveness toward sustainable land systems. Integrating early career scientists into our training and workforce development offerings from the beginning, and through provision of ongoing mentoring and laddering, GLP will generate strong participation of young scholars from the Global South and marginalized communities of the Global North.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.