Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Immobility in a changing climate

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团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。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以处理，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提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作。 这些小组将建立跨学科项目，以确定和了解与气候有关的事件，无论是缓慢发生还是快速发生，如何与人类移徙和流动联系在一起。 该项目旨在研究人类流动性的未被充分探索但更为普遍的方面--不动性。 该小组将寻求了解为什么人们选择留下来，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，对巴哈马、巴西、加纳、莫桑比克和瑞典五个沿海城市的复杂不动现象进行实证研究。 该项目将提高我们对那些易受极端气候影响的人的不动性和（不）愿意从气候高风险地区搬迁的理解，以及人们为什么返回高风险地区。这项研究将审查国家和国际资金的作用，以及对不流动人口发展能力和复原力的支持。该委员会将参与并提供经验证据，以促进目前为避免、最大限度地减少和解决与气候变化相关的潜在损失而作出的努力。这项工作将寻求解决关键的挑战，并为受气候变化影响不成比例的人和社区提供关键信息，并更好地为移民，气候灾害和适应决策者提供信息。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。

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.