Planning: CRISES: Planning for a Future Center on Sustainability and Governance in the Anthropocene (C-SAGA)

由于人类活动，气候变化、生物多样性丧失和不可持续发展等当前的地球危机正在迅速加剧。这些环境问题越来越复杂，不能通过简单的技术手段来解决。应对这些相互关联的挑战的政策需要利用现有的最佳科学，同时也要确保它们不会产生意想不到的后果，特别是对已经脆弱的人群。这项规划拨款将使罗格斯大学的研究人员能够与全球其他科学家合作，通过对渔业、粮食系统、生物多样性和入侵物种的案例研究，探索这些问题的可能解决方案，从而阐明有效和创新的政策，并确定环境治理中的关键差距。该团队与全球合作伙伴的合作有助于加强国际社会科学交流和环境挑战方面的伙伴关系。通过这些合作，预期的中心将成为激发社会科学见解的催化剂，并建立一套跨案例的技术和技术，这些技术和技术可以与政策机构、非政府组织、当地社区和其他地方的合作伙伴共享。这项规划拨款将允许研究小组设计一个未来的人类世可持续发展和治理中心（C-SAGA）。治理的障碍包括生态和社会经济系统日益复杂和相互依存；在空间和时间上遥远和分散的环境影响；深度不确定性的新条件；以及不可逆转的临界点、连锁反应和反馈的可能性。确保对这些人类世挑战的任何回应都以正义为基础至关重要。该中心的创新将是协调和推进前沿社会科学研究，以确定能够促进新形式治理的创新机制、行为和结构。拟议中的C-SAGA中心将从事针对当前环境挑战的新治理形式的跨学科研究，特别是提高利益相关者参与的政策和创新，涉及不同的知识系统，并通过与利益相关者和政策制定者合作，设计和实施变革政策的新实验，帮助为所有人创造更公平的结果。未来的中心将围绕创新、传播和学习方面的实验进行设计，包括为治理参与者开发孵化器，以交流和推广模式，以及培训以提高跨知识和跨规模治理的能力。在探索可持续社会生态转型的治理差距以及与其他机构和潜在合作伙伴合作的机会时，研究团队将为未来的研究中心提案奠定基础，以满足地方、国家和全球的需求。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。

Current planetary crises, like climate change, biodiversity loss, and unsustainable development are accelerating rapidly due to human activity. These environmental problems are increasing in complexity and cannot be solved by simple technological fixes. Policies to address these interlinked challenges need to draw on the best available science while also ensuring that they do not create unintended consequences, especially for people who are already vulnerable. This planning grant will enable researchers at Rutgers University to work together with other scientists around the globe to explore possible solutions to these problems through case studies across fisheries, food systems, and biodiversity and invasive species that illuminate effective and innovative policies and identify key gaps in environmental governance. The team’s engagement with global partners contributes to the strengthening of international social science exchanges and partnerships on environmental challenges. Through these collaborations, the anticipated center will be a catalyst to activate social science insights and build a suite of techniques and technologies across cases that can be shared with partners in policy institutions, NGOs, local communities, and elsewhere. This planning grant will allow the research team to design a future Center on Sustainability and Governance in the Anthropocene (C-SAGA). Barriers to governing include the increasing complexity and interdependence of ecological and socio-economic systems; spatially and temporally distant and diffuse environmental impacts; novel conditions of deep uncertainty; and the potential for irreversible tipping points, cascades and feedbacks. Ensuring that any response to these Anthropocene challenges is grounded in justice is crucial. The innovation of the center will be to coordinate and advance cutting-edge social science scholarship to identify innovative mechanisms, behaviors and structures that can facilitate new forms of governance. The proposed C-SAGA center will engage in transdisciplinary research on new forms of governance for our current environmental challenges, particularly policies and innovations that improve stakeholder participation, involve different knowledge systems, and help create more equitable outcomes for all through engaging with stakeholders and policymakers to design and implement new experiments in transformative policy. The future center will be designed around experiments in innovation, diffusion and learning, including developing incubators for governance actors to exchange and scale up models, and training to improve capacities in governing across knowledges and scales. In exploring gaps in governance for sustainable socio-ecological transformations and opportunities for collaborations with other institutions and potential partners, the research team will create the foundations for a future proposal for a research center that meets local, national, and global needs.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.