Group Travel Support for U.S. Participants in Tokyo International Symposium on the Human Response to Global Change, September 19-22, 1988

这项团体旅行提案要求提供资金，以支付参加1988年9月19-22日东京人类应对全球变化国际研讨会的美国与会者的旅费和生活费。这次研讨会有可能成为制定国际社会科学研究计划的重要一步，该计划可能成为国际地圈-生物圈计划的一部分，或与之平行和补充：全球变化研究(IGBP)。按照目前的设想，国际地圈-生物圈方案只包括很少的社会科学研究。要全面理解全球变化，就有必要理解全球变化的人的层面。人类活动对地球系统有影响，地球系统的变化也会对人类产生影响。社会科学研究对政府间气候变化框架计划的潜在重要性已得到广泛承认，并已采取初步步骤，启动一项国际社会科学研究计划，作为政府间气候变化框架计划的一部分或补充。美国国家科学基金会资助了两个关于全球变化的人类层面的研讨会：1987年9月举行的安娜堡研讨会，主要由美国社会科学家组成；以及1988年5月在北京举行的中美研讨会。东京研讨会将是关于全球变化的人的层面的第一次会议，具有广泛的国际代表性。它可能会对定义一项关于全球变化的人的层面的国际研究计划做出重大贡献。为了确保NSF资助的两个研讨会的结果影响东京研讨会的结果，重要的是，参加这两个研讨会的美国人能够参加东京研讨会。

This group travel proposal requests funds to cover the travel and subsistence of U.S. participants in the Tokyo International Symposium on the Human Response to Global Change on September 19- 22,1988. The symposium has the potential of being an important step in the process of developing an international social science research program that could become part of, or be parallel and complementary to, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: A Study of Global Change (IGBP). The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, as currently conceived, includes very little social science research. To comprehend global change fully it will be necessary to understand the human dimensions of global change. Human activities have consequences for the Earth system, and changes in the Earth system will have consequences for mankind. The potential importance of social science research for IGBP has been broadly acknowledged, and initial steps have been taken to launch an international social science research program to be part of or to complement IGBP. The National Science Foundation provided funds to support two workshops on the human dimensions of global change: the Ann Arbor workshop, held in September 1987 which was comprised primarily of U.S. social scientists, and the Chinese-U.S. workshop, which was held in Beijing in May 1988. The Tokyo symposium will be the first meeting on the human dimensions of global change with broad international representation. It could make a major contribution to defining an international research program on the human dimensions of global change. To insure that the results of the two NSF-supported workshops influence the outcome of the Tokyo symposium, it is important that U.S. participants in the two workshops be able to take part in the Tokyo symposium.