Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science (ACCESS)

至关重要的是，必须提供社会科学见解，以支持向可持续和生物多样性环境和净零社会的过渡。我们正处于生物多样性危机之中，这对人类和非人类本性都有深远的影响。为了限制全球气温上升，迫切需要大幅削减温室气体排放。这场多方面的危机，以及新冠肺炎等危机，都需要社会科学家在研究、政策制定和行动方面具备技能、洞察力和领导力。然而，环境解决方案往往被框定为技术或生态修复措施，低估了政策和实践干预的社会层面。社会科学研究很少在很短的时间内灵活地响应社会需求，迫切需要更强有力的社区组织和协调。我们需要提高社会科学的可及性、灵活性和使用，并进一步发展必要的技能，为跨学科研究做出贡献，使知识和行动能够共同产生。气候与环境社会科学能力进步(ACCESS)是一个由世界领先的社会科学和跨学科专家组成的团队，由埃克塞特大学、萨里大学、巴斯大学、利兹大学和苏塞克斯大学以及自然环境社会研究网络(自然资源威尔士、自然苏格兰、自然英格兰、环境署和森林研究)领导。Access核心团队得到了来自英国权力下放国家和国际的学术和利益相关者合作伙伴的更广泛的专业知识网络的补充：斯特拉斯克莱德大学、贝尔法斯特皇后大学、卡迪夫大学、廷德尔气候变化研究中心、曼彻斯特大学、普利茅斯海洋实验室、悉尼大学以及威尔士政府、苏格兰和南方能源、特许水与环境管理研究所、国家信托基金、社会科学院、英格兰社区能源公司、温彻斯特科学中心以及德文郡和萨里县议会等利益攸关方合作伙伴。Access围绕三个交叉主题(联合制作；平等、多样性和包容性；可持续性和净零)构成四个工作包的基础：1.绘制、评估和学习社会科学家过去在气候和环境培训、研究、政策和实践方面的经验；开发和测试新的资源，以影响跨学科教育、研究和知识调动，促进政策文化、机构、企业和民间社会的变革(工作包)；2.通过提供培训和能力建设，包括大师班、安置、指导和大学网络，增强领导能力和知识交流技能，在不同的学习和职业阶段增强环境社会科学家的能力(WP2)；3.通过创造新想法和测试新方法进行创新；涵盖未来的变革性社会科学，使社会科学能力能够快速和及时地部署，以应对关键事件或紧急情况(WP3)；4.通过提供可访问的知识/数据中心和创新的公众参与跟踪，在英国和国际范围内倡导和协调环境社会科学家；建立新的网络，促进协调与合作；支持政策和决策(WP4)。ACCESS的深度和广度的专业知识，加上产生的一系列创新资源，将为环境社会科学提供变革性的领导和协调。Access将成为英国政府和非政府机构、企业和民间社会信任的环境社会科学的主要来源。通过这样做，ACCESS将确保非社会科学学者和利益攸关方更容易看到、重视和使用社会科学见解，支持向可持续和生物多样性环境和低碳社会过渡。

It is critically important to provide social science insights to support the transition to a sustainable and biodiverse environment and a net zero society. We are in a biodiversity crisis, with profound implications for humanity and nonhuman nature. Severe cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are urgently needed to restrict global temperature increases. This multi-faceted crisis, alongside disruptions such as COVID-19, demands the skills, insights and leadership of social scientists in relation to research, policy-making and action. However, environmental solutions are often framed as technological or ecological fixes, underestimating social dimensions of policy and practice interventions. Social science research is rarely agile and responsive to societal needs in very short time frames, and there is an urgent need for stronger community organisation and coordination. We need to increase the accessibility, agility and use of social science, as well as to further develop the skills necessary to contribute to interdisciplinary research, enabling the co-production of knowledge and action.Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science (ACCESS) is a team of world-leading social science and interdisciplinary experts led by the Universities of Exeter and Surrey with the Universities of Bath, Leeds & Sussex and the Natural Environment Social Research Network (Natural Resources Wales, NatureScot, Natural England, Environment Agency and Forest Research). The ACCESS core team is complemented by a wider network of expertise drawn from academic and stakeholder partners across UK devolved nations and internationally: Strathclyde University, Queens University Belfast, Cardiff University, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Manchester University, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Sydney and stakeholder partners including the Welsh Government, Scottish and Southern Energy, the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management, National Trust, Academy for Social Sciences, Community Energy England, Winchester Science Centre and Devon and Surrey County Councils. ACCESS is structured around three cross-cutting themes (Co-production; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Sustainability and Net Zero) that underpin four work packages:1. Map, assess and learn from the past experiences of social scientists in climate and environment training, research, policy and practice; to develop and test new resources to impact interdisciplinary education, research and knowledge mobilisation, catalysing change in policy culture, institutions, businesses and civil society (Work Package (WP)1);2. Empower environmental social scientists at different learning and career stages by providing training and capacity building, including masterclasses, placements, mentoring and collegiate networks to enhance leadership and knowledge exchange skills (WP2);3. Innovate by creating new ideas and testing new approaches; scope future transformative social science and enable rapid and timely deployment of social science capacity in response to key events or emergencies (WP3);4. Champion and coordinate environmental social scientists across the UK and internationally by providing an accessible knowledge/data hub and innovative public engagement tracker; building new networks, enabling coordination and collaboration; supporting policy and decision-making (WP4).ACCESS' depth and breadth of expertise coupled with the range of innovative resources produced will deliver transformational leadership and coordination of environmental social science. ACCESS will become the key trusted source of environmental social science for UK governmental and non-governmental agencies, business and civil society. In so doing, ACCESS will ensure that social science insights become more visible, valued and used by non-social science academics and stakeholders, supporting the transition to a sustainable and biodiverse environment and a low carbon society.