Planning: Comparing Climate Change-Related Vulnerabilities in Greenland and Iceland

规划：比较格陵兰岛和冰岛与气候变化相关的脆弱性

• 批准号: 2243860
• 负责人: Thomas Rotnem
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation
• 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: 2023-01-15 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243860&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Comparing; Climate; Change; Related

This award supports the development of collaborative relationships and future research questions with local communities and institutions in the North Atlantic, where investigators will explore the impacts of environmental change on livestock farming economies. Taking a comparative perspective, the researchers will conduct initial site visits and interviews to evaluate how recent climate shifts have affected local ecosystems, livelihoods, and infrastructure in southern Iceland and southwest Greenland. Research questions include how recent demographic and economic changes are affecting participants and how satellite data analysis may assist local stakeholders to adapt to the effects of climate change. The research team will use preliminary findings as the basis for the development of a future research proposal that responds to the priorities of participating communities.This project uses mixed social science methods, including interviews, focus groups, and site visits. The project will lay the foundation for a future NSF proposal while exploring the use of satellite data to evaluate landscape and vegetation changes with collaborators in Iceland and Greenland and addressing existing data needs in local communities. Plans for dissemination include presentations at professional conferences and to participating communities, a peer-reviewed journal article, and a series of virtual classroom exchanges among students and researchers in the U.S., Iceland, and Greenland.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.

该奖项支持与北大西洋当地社区和机构的合作关系和未来研究问题的发展，研究人员将探索环境变化对畜牧业经济的影响。从比较的角度来看，研究人员将进行初步的实地考察和访谈，以评估最近的气候变化如何影响冰岛南部和格陵兰岛西南部的当地生态系统、生计和基础设施。研究问题包括最近的人口和经济变化如何影响参与者以及卫星数据分析如何帮助当地利益攸关方适应气候变化的影响。研究小组将利用初步调查结果作为制定未来研究建议的基础，以回应参与社区的优先事项。本项目采用混合社会科学方法，包括访谈、焦点小组和实地考察。该项目将为未来的国家科学基金会提案奠定基础，同时与冰岛和格陵兰的合作者探索使用卫星数据来评估景观和植被变化，并解决当地社区现有的数据需求。传播计划包括在专业会议和参与社区发表演讲，发表同行评议的期刊文章，以及在美国、冰岛和格陵兰的学生和研究人员之间进行一系列虚拟课堂交流。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。