DISES: Restoring Indigenous Socio-Environmental Systems (RISES)

数千年来，土著习俗影响着地球上的动植物分布。研究表明，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往往更高。然而，在世界上的许多地方，包括北美，这些动态被殖民入侵打断了。几个世纪的集约化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，一个多学科团队开发了一个恢复土著社会环境系统（rise）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的肖肖尼族西北部落领导。该团队正在量化长期的土著SES动态。他们正在模拟对保护目标至关重要的SES变化的驱动因素。这些资料正在向土地管理人员和公众散发。此外，该项目还培训了许多部落青年、本科生和研究生。通过对传统知识、群落生态学、历史生态学、考古学和古生态学的综合研究，揭示了过去土著SES的动态。在土著社区的合作和共同领导下，这种活力得以恢复。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收敛框架。该框架量化了长期的社会环境动态，评估了系统变化的驱动因素，并综合了研究结果。它使用统计模型和基于过程的模型，其中包括对不确定性的估计，以评估未来气候制度下替代恢复方案的潜在功效。最后，它利用调查结果让社区成员、土著中学生和大学生以及土地管理者参与进来，所有人都在共享知识和解决问题的合作框架内。利用自然科学和行为科学中长期存在的和新兴的假设，该项目评估了SES动态的驱动因素。其中包括渐进与随机过程在社会经济系统稳定性、弹性和临界点上的作用。它们正被整合到一个能够预测未来气候情景下不确定性的框架中。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。

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.