Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Immobility in a changing climate

该奖项为参与由55个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛发起的全球变化研究项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个研究资助组织的联盟，致力于支持跨学科方法来应对全球环境变化的挑战和机遇。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。该奖项为美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作提供支持。这些小组将建立跨学科项目，以确定和了解与气候相关的事件（无论是缓慢的还是快速的）如何与人类迁移和流动联系起来。ITHACA项目旨在调查人类活动中尚未被充分探索但更为普遍的方面——不动。该团队将试图理解为什么人们选择留下、返回或不能离开以应对气候变化。这个跨学科的研究小组将利用新的方法对巴哈马、巴西、加纳、莫桑比克和瑞典五个沿海城市的复杂的不动现象进行实证研究。ITHACA将提高我们对那些易受极端气候影响的人的不流动性的理解，以及（联合国）从气候高风险地区搬迁的意愿，以及为什么人们会回到高风险地区。该研究将审查国家和国际资金以及对非流动人口发展能力和复原力的支持的作用。ITHACA将参与并提供经验证据，为当前避免、减少和解决与气候变化相关的潜在损失的努力做出贡献。这项工作将寻求解决关键挑战，为受气候变化严重影响的人群和社区提供关键信息，并为管理移民、气候灾害和适应的决策者提供更好的信息。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。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The teams will establish transdisciplinary projects to identify and understand how climate-related events, both slow and rapid onset, are linked to human migration and mobility. The ITHACA project aims to investigate the underexplored, yet far more common aspect of human mobility - immobility. The team will seek to understand why people choose to stay, return or cannot leave in response to climate change. The transdisciplinary research team will utilize novel methodologies to empirically study the complex phenomenon of immobility in five coastal urban sites located in Bahamas, Brazil, Ghana, Mozambique and Sweden. ITHACA will improve our understanding of immobility of those vulnerable to climate extremes and of the (un)willingness to relocate from climatically high-risk zones, and why people return to high-risk areas. The study will examine the role for national and international finance and support for immobile populations to develop capabilities and resilience. ITHACA will engage with, and provide empirical evidence to contribute towards, current efforts to avert, minimize and address the potential losses associated with climate change. This work will seek to address critical challenges and provide critical information for people and communities disproportionately affected by climate change and to better inform decision makers governing migration, climate disasters and adaptation.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.