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

土地是解决重大社会和环境问题的关键所在。社会对全球土地使用的选择与社会福祉密切相关。作为一个国际网络，全球土地计划（GLP）具有独特的优势，可以通过消除障碍，让所有利益相关者参与进来，并通过协作任务驱动的科学过程确定解决方案来应对这些重大挑战。GLP将来自地球仪的土地系统科学家聚集在一起，以解决广泛的问题，实现国际科学界的参与式合作，并推进特定的前沿研究问题和综合活动;新产品，工具和数据;以及与社会相关的解决方案，为世界各地的社会带来变革性的利益。能力建设工作将促进土地系统科学领域更加多样化、具有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从业者社区建立联系将使影响的可能性成倍增加。GLP将与相关方和决策者接触，了解他们的知识需求，以解决美国全球变化研究计划（USGCRP）为应对全球变化挑战而制定的优先研究和信息需求，生成支持土地系统可持续性转型的可操作知识。GLP的使命是将科学创新与社会相关性联系起来，并采用基于地点的研究来综合理解全球变化的模式和过程以及全球政策背景下的相关辩论。在GLP的总体战略背景下，国际计划办公室（IPO）将能够：1）制定议程并促进土地系统科学（LSS）的综合; 2）在全球范围内制作尖端的LSS; 3）通知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，以解决方案为导向的科学。GLP研究人员成员，无论是个人还是集体，在实现这些目标方面都有双重任务。首先，他们将进一步发展建模，监测和案例研究和综合的方法论核心能力。第二，通过GLP“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，以最大限度地提高可持续土地系统的效力。GLP从一开始就将早期职业科学家融入我们的培训和劳动力发展产品中，并通过提供持续的指导和阶梯，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强烈参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值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.