NERC Community for Engaging Environments

气候变化、空气质量问题、资源和能源安全、过度开采和污染等紧迫问题意味着，NERC环境科学研究是社会及其未来不可或缺的一部分。我们的第一阶段参与环境项目显示：英国社区认为他们在解决这些问题方面有意义的利益；研究人员强烈希望将他们的工作融入社会。令人望而生畏的环境问题和当地的社会经济状况意味着许多人感到无能为力。这导致了冷漠或愤怒，削弱了对辩论的胃口，并侵蚀了对机构的信任。一份第一阶段社区研究报告指出，公众的需求与科学家的工作方式之间存在不匹配。它表明，通过传统传播方式的单向参与很普遍。该报告承认，公众和科学家认识到整合参与和共同创造的必要性。在此之前，ComRes(2017)的工作表明，当人们能够与自己的生活联系起来时，他们对环境研究的兴趣就会增加。对我们来说，公众参与环境研究必须大胆地重新想象为一种集体实践和共同努力。它需要挑战现状。我们的项目使理解和支持社区和研究人员的新方法成为可能，以促进对当代环境变化的集体反应的出现。在第一阶段，包括学习了社区组织如何通过关系建设发展力量和代理，强调我们是如何相互依赖的，并设计出导致积极变化的行动。Opener建立了实践社区，分享最佳做法并支持参与性公民科学方面的领导。为了使社区能够建立机构，并感到他们有能力在环境问题上采取行动，我们将发展和支持社区领导人和环境科学研究人员之间的关系建设。这将使英国公众在他们付费的环境研究中拥有发言权和利益。我们在以人为中心的方法时代的到来中结合了这些强大的元素，这些方法降低了社区和研究人员参与和参与的障碍。我们正在整合和学习社区组织，以了解人们的动机，分析机构的权力动态，并建立信任。不同社区、NERC研究社区、从业者、面向公众的组织和环境非政府组织之间的伙伴关系和合作是我们在英国推动开放科学的雄心的关键。通过建立关系，我们将在全国范围内发出行动呼吁，让人们分享他们关于环境的故事-承认并捕捉人们与他们生活的地方、他们关心的物种和对他们来说最重要的风景的不同遭遇。因此，人们以有意义的方式参与了这场辩论。我们将实施方法和工具，使研究人员能够与公众分享环境科学议程，共同应对环境挑战。我们将实施一系列共同开发的行动，从被动消费到深度参与DIY科学，获取一系列参与程度。我们的第二阶段项目将把NERC定位在UKRI“一个研究由所有人创造、使用、挑战、重视和共享的社会的愿景”的前沿，并为未来的项目设定一个新的基准。项目团队和更广泛的合作伙伴关系在以下领域处于领先地位：环境科学(气候、地质、生态学、土壤、海洋)；公众参与；公民科学；社会科学；以及面向公众的组织。我们共同致力于集体学习以及确保国家实践社区的可持续性所需的新的思维和行为方式，该社区将成为国家环境影响研究中心的社区。

The urgent issues of climate change, air quality concerns, resource and energy security, overexploitation, and pollution, mean that NERC environmental science research is integral to society and its future. Our Stage-1 Engaging Environments projects revealed: UK communities feel that they have a meaningful stake in tackling these issues; and researchers have a strong desire to integrate their work into society. The daunting scale of environmental issues and socio-economic conditions on the ground mean many feel powerless to act. This leads to apathy or anger, undermining appetite for debate and eroding trust in institutions.A Stage-1 Community Research Report notes that there is a mismatch between what the public want and how scientists work. It suggests that one-way engagement through traditional dissemination is prevalent. The report acknowledges that publics and scientists recognise the need for integrated engagement and co-creation. This follows work by ComRes (2017) that showed people's interest in environmental research increases when they are able to make a connection to their own lives. For us, public engagement with environmental research must be boldly re-imagined as a collective practice and joint endeavour. It needs to challenge the status quo. Our project enables new ways of understanding and supporting communities and researchers to bolster the emergence of collective responses to contemporary environmental change. In Stage-1, ENCOMPASS learnt how community organising develops power and agency through relationship building that emphasises how dependent we are on each other and devises action that results in positive change. OPENER established communities of practice that shared best practice and supported leadership in participatory citizen science. To enable communities to build agency and feel they have the power to act on environmental issues, we will develop and support relationship building between community leaders and environmental science researchers. This will give the UK public at large a voice and a stake in the environmental research that they pay for. We combine these strong elements in a coming of age of people-centred approaches that lower barriers to engagement and participation for both communities and researchers. We are integrating and learning from community organising in order to understand people's motivations, analyse power dynamics of institutions and build trust. Partnership and collaboration between diverse communities, the NERC research community, practitioners, public-facing organisations, and environmental NGOs are key to our ambition to advance open science in the UK.Through building relationships, we will make a national call to action, where people share their story of the environment - acknowledging and capturing people's diverse encounters with the places where they live, the species they care about and the landscapes that matter most to them. People thus contribute to the debate in meaningful ways. We will put into practice approaches and tools that enable researchers to share the environmental science agenda with the public and to respond together to environmental challenges. We will implement a set of co-developed actions, capturing a range of levels of engagement from passive consumption to deeply involved DIY science. Our Stage-2 project will position NERC at the leading edge of the UKRI's "vision of a society in which research is created, used, challenged, valued, and shared by all" and sets a new benchmark for future projects.The project team and wider partnership are leaders in: environmental science (climate, geology, ecology, soil, marine); public engagement; citizen science; social science; and public-facing organisations. We share a commitment to collective learning and the new ways of thinking and doing required to ensure the sustainability of a national community of practice that will become the NERC Community for Engaging Environments.