Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Immobility in a changing climate

该奖项为参与一个由55个国家发起的全球变化研究计划通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选定的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联盟，专注于支持以跨学科方法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，加速开展最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国都在一个联合体内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这种办法有助于有效地利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。该奖项为美国研究人员在财团中进行合作提供支持，财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成。这些团队将建立跨学科项目，以确定和了解气候相关事件(包括缓慢和快速发生的事件)如何与人类迁徙和流动联系在一起。Ithaca项目旨在调查人类流动性中未被探索但却更为常见的方面--静止不动。该团队将寻求了解人们为什么选择留下来、返回或不能离开，以应对气候变化。跨学科研究小组将利用新的方法对位于巴哈马、巴西、加纳、莫桑比克和瑞典的五个沿海城市遗址的复杂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静止、从气候高风险地区搬迁的(联合国)意愿以及人们为什么返回高风险地区的理解。这项研究将审查国家和国际资金的作用，以及支持非流动人口发展能力和复原力。Ithaca将参与并提供经验证据，以促进当前为避免、最大限度地减少和解决与气候变化有关的潜在损失所作的努力。这项工作将寻求解决关键挑战，并为受气候变化影响较大的人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。

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.