Climate change, social inequality & psychosocial wellbeing with emerging digital data - a multidisciplinary network between UK and South Korea

气候变化的影响不仅对生命、基础设施和自然环境造成直接威胁，而且还具有深刻的社会影响，并有扩大现有不平等的危险。与气候变化有关的心理社会福祉的不平等(例如，暴露在极端天气事件引发的严重痛苦中，对‘没有未来’的生态焦虑)相对难以直接分析，因为它们通常是个人层面的“内在”(例如，主观经验和感受)。社会数据科学和机器学习技术的最新发展意味着，气候变化对不同弱势群体的不成比例影响可以使用新兴的数字数据来源来衡量和跟踪，例如街景图像、用户生成的内容、众包数据、移动电话和社交媒体。这些新的数据来源包含脆弱人群的各种人类行为模式，可以用来推断心理社会健康状况的个体差异。这些数据使我们能够了解气候变化如何以及在多大程度上通过影响心理社会福祉来加剧社会不平等，以及需要哪些保护因素和支持要求。它还为在统一的数据环境和技术框架内研究和解决气候变化和社会心理福利不平等问题提供了新的视角。在此基础上开发未来的合作研究计划，有可能帮助实现联合国可持续发展目标11(其中减少不平等是核心)和共同13，这也符合英国和韩国政府的优先事项。根据目标，已分配了三个工作包(WP)。拟议的任务和预期产出在“支持案例”文件中作了解释。1)WP1进行范围研究，以提炼研究问题并确定相关资源：第一步将首先探索现有国家数据集的重大不平等维度，以及不同群体对气候危机的心理反应。第二步将调查现有的新兴数字数据源及其建模和预测技术。世界各地的相关研究小组将被记录在一个数据库中，以便在未来接触到更广泛的研究社区，并与顶尖学者联系，以模拟新的研究项目。2)WP2发展对气候决策中的信息需求的理解：气候信息用户(例如，水资源管理人员、住房分配规划者)对气候信息的解释可能与气候专家旨在交流的内容不同。将与研究人员、气候信息提供者和用户举行为期一天的混合研讨会，以确定和了解气候变化的信息传播与气候实践和政策中的决策要求之间的差距，以及气候变化对福祉的影响造成的经济障碍和隐性成本。将对两国在气候交流方面的经验、最佳做法和数据接口进行比较和讨论，这将有助于提高人们的认识，分享有效的干预措施，以应对气候变化的心理社会影响。3)英国和韩国之间的WP3交流研究人员和支持ECR：双方的工作人员和ECR将对每个国家进行多次短期访问，进行研究陈述、集思广益和讨论。特别是，培训计划将旨在支持ECR，这有助于在英国和韩国集团之间建立长期合作关系。在整个项目期间，还将通过在线平台进行远程讨论、会议和研讨会。

Climate change impacts are not only leading to physical consequences in terms of direct threats to life, infrastructure, and the natural environment, but also have profound social implications and threaten to widen existing inequalities. Climate change-related inequalities in psychosocial wellbeing (e.g., exposure to the severe distress triggered by extreme weather events, eco-anxiety of 'no future'), are relatively difficult to analyse directly because they are typically 'inner' (e.g., subjective experiences and feelings) at the individual level. Recent developments in social data science and machine learning techniques, mean the disproportionate effect of climate change on different vulnerable groups can be measured and tracked using emerging sources of digital data such as street-view images, user-generated content, crowdsourced data, mobile phones, and social media. These new data sources contain patterns of various human behaviours in vulnerable people, which can be utilised to infer individual differences in psychosocial wellbeing. This data makes it feasible to understand how and to what extent climate change exacerbates social inequalities by affecting psychosocial wellbeing, and what protective factors and support requirements are needed. It also provides a new lens to study and address climate change and psychosocial wellbeing inequality within a uniform data environment and technique framework. Developing future collaborative research programmes based on this has the potential to assist in the achievement of UN's SDG 11(where inequality reduction is a core) and 13 together, which also aligns with UK and South Korea government priorities.According to the objectives, three work packages (WP) have been allocated. Proposed tasks, and expected outputs are explained in the 'case for support' document. 1)WP1 Conduct a scoping study to refine research questions and identify relevant resources: Step one will first explore the substantial inequalities dimensions from existing national datasets, and the psychological responses to the climate crisis in different groups. Step two will investigate available emerging digital data sources and their modelling and prediction techniques. Relevant research groups around the world will be recorded in a database in order to reach wider research communities and make contact with top academics in the future to simulate new research projects.2)WP2 Develop an understanding of information requirements in climate decision-making: Climate information users' (e.g., water managers, housing allocation planners) interpretations of climate information may differ from what climate experts aim to communicate. A one-day hybrid workshop will be held with researchers, climate information providers and users to identify and understand the gap between the information communication of climate change and the requirements in decision making in climate practice and policy, the economic barriers and hidden costs caused by climate change's impact on wellbeing. The experience, best practice, and data interfaces in climate communication in the two countries will be compared and discussed, which will help to increase awareness and share effective interventions to respond to the psychosocial impacts of climate change. 3)WP3 Exchange researchers between the UK and South Korea and support ECRs: Staffs and ECRs from each side will conduct several short visits to each country, for research presentations, brainstorming and discussions. Especially, training programmes will be designed to support ECRs, which helps to build the long-term collaborations between the UK and South Korea groups. Remote discussions, meetings, and seminars will also be conducted via online platforms throughout the whole project period.