DISES: Restoring Indigenous Socio-Environmental Systems (RISES)

土著习俗影响了地球上动植物的分布达数千年之久。研究表明，在土著社会环境系统（SES）持续存在的地方，生物多样性和生态系统健康程度往往较高。然而，在世界各地的许多地方，包括北美，这些动态被殖民入侵打断。几个世纪以来，密集的农业和工业活动改变了生态系统，侵蚀了土著人民与生态系统之间的传统关系。在这个项目中，一个多学科小组制定了一个恢复土著社会环境系统的框架。这一框架适用于部落土地的恢复工作。修复工作由熊河流域肖肖尼族西北部落领导。该团队正在量化长期的土著社会经济地位动态。他们正在模拟SES变化的驱动因素，这对保护目标至关重要。目前正在向土地管理人员和公众传播这一信息。此外，该项目还培训了许多部落青年、本科生和研究生。揭示过去的原住民社会经济地位动态正在通过持久的传统知识，社区生态学，历史生态学，考古学和古生态学的融合来完成。在土著社区的合作和共同领导下，动力得以恢复。这些社区通常被排除在恢复项目之外，从而损害了社会和环境系统。本项目开发了一个可推广的融合框架。这一框架量化了长期的社会环境动态，评价了系统变化的驱动因素，并综合了调查结果。它使用统计和基于过程的模型，包括不确定性的估计，以评估未来气候制度下替代恢复情景的潜在功效。最后，它利用调查结果，使社区成员，土著中学生和大学生，土地管理人员，所有在一个共享的知识生成和解决问题的协作框架。该项目利用自然科学和行为科学中长期存在和新兴的假设，评估了SES动态的驱动因素。这些包括渐进与随机过程对SES稳定性，弹性和临界点的作用。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Indigenous practices influenced plant and animal distributions across the planet for thousands of years. Research shows that biodiversity and ecosystem health are often higher where Indigenous socio-environmental systems (SES) persist. Yet in many locations around the world, including North America, these dynamics were interrupted by colonial invasions. Centuries of intensive agriculture and industrial activities have altered ecosystems and eroded traditional relationships between Indigenous people and ecosystems. In this project a multidisciplinary team develops a framework for Restoring Indigenous Socio-Environmental Systems (RISES). This framework is applied to a restoration effort on Tribal land. The restoration is led by the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation in the Bear River Basin. The team is quantifying long-term Indigenous SES dynamics. They are modeling the drivers of SES change that are critical for conservation goals. That information is being disseminated to land managers and the public. In addition, the project trains many tribal youth, undergraduate, and graduate students. Uncovering past Indigenous SES dynamics is being accomplished through a convergence of enduring traditional knowledge, community ecology, historical ecology, archaeology, and paleoecology. Restoration of the dynamics takes place with the collaboration and shared leadership of Indigenous communities. These communities are typically left out of restoration projects to the detriment of both social and environmental systems. This project develops a generalizable convergence framework. That framework quantifies long-term socio-environmental dynamics, evaluates the drivers of change in the system, and synthesizes findings. It does so using statistical and process-based models that include estimates of uncertainty to evaluate the potential efficacy of alternative restoration scenarios under future climate regimes. Finally, it leverages the findings to engage community members, Indigenous secondary and university students, and land managers, all within a collaborative framework of shared knowledge generation and problem solving. Drawing on long-standing and emerging hypotheses across the natural and behavioral sciences, the project evaluates the drivers of SES dynamics. These include the role of gradual vs. stochastic processes on SES stability, resilience, and tipping points. They are being integrated in a framework capable of forecasting with estimates of uncertainty under future climate scenarios.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.