DISES: Restoring Indigenous Socio-Environmental Systems (RISES)

数千年来，土著习俗影响了地球上动植物的分布。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往往更高。然而，在世界各地的许多地方，包括北美，这些动态都被殖民入侵打断了。数百年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。在该项目中，一个多学科小组制定了恢复土著社会环境系统的框架。这一框架适用于部落土地上的恢复工作。修复工作由熊河流域的Shoshone Nation西北乐队牵头。该团队正在对本土SES的长期动态进行量化。他们正在模拟对保护目标至关重要的SES变化的驱动因素。这些信息正在向土地管理人员和公众传播。此外，该项目还培养了许多部落青年、本科生和研究生。揭示过去的土著SES动态是通过融合持久的传统知识、社区生态学、历史生态学、考古学和古生态学来完成的。在土著社区的合作和共同领导下，恢复了这一动态。这些社区通常被排除在恢复项目之外，这对社会和环境系统都是不利的。该项目开发了一个可推广的融合框架。该框架量化了长期的社会环境动态，评估了系统变革的驱动因素，并综合了调查结果。为此，它使用统计和基于过程的模型，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效力。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人员参与进来，所有这些都是在共享知识和解决问题的协作框架内进行的。该项目利用自然科学和行为科学中长期存在的和新兴的假说，评估了SES动力学的驱动因素。其中包括渐进过程与随机过程对SES稳定性、弹性和临界点的作用。他们正在被整合到一个框架中，能够预测未来气候情景下的不确定性。这一奖项反映了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。

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.