Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change Under Master Agreement

近年来，随着对全球环境变化的研究取得进展，科学家们越来越意识到，人类(作为个人和通过机构)与自然系统有着重大而复杂的相互作用。人类改变自然环境条件，并对这些条件的变化做出反应。审查全球环境变化的人类层面的独立研究项目澄清了人为变化的一些过程，一些会议和出版物试图综合不同学科的信息并概述未来的研究需求。然而，这些努力没有得到很好的协调，其中许多努力也没有让在分析人类与环境相互作用方面具有经验的知名学者参与其中。该奖项将部分资助由国家研究理事会行为和社会科学及教育委员会(CBASSE)赞助的全球变化的人文层面委员会的运作。通过其会议和委托研究，该委员会将(1)评估以前关于这一主题的研究，(2)评估现有的数据来源，(3)考虑合作研究如何促进知识的产生，并吸引更多的社会和行为科学家在这一重要领域开展工作，以及(4)制定可在不久的将来实施的研究议程。该委员会将在1990年夏季之前发表一份报告，其中载有评估和建议。该委员会将在评估已经开展的研究以及确定在分析全球环境变化的人类层面方面最有成效的研究战略方面发挥关键作用。由于其地位及其在开展此类研究方面的经验，国家研究委员会将让更多国家的顶尖科学家参与这一项目，并将提供更有效和更广泛的手段来传播委员会得出的结论。因此，未来对这一主题的研究将建立在比其他情况下更合理的背景下。

As research on global environmental change has advanced in recent years, scientists have become increasingly aware that humans (acting as individuals and through institutions) have significant and complex interactions with natural systems. Humans alter natural environmental conditions, and they respond to changes in those conditions. Independent research projects examining the human dimensions of global environmental change have clarified some of the processes of anthropogenic change, and a number of conferences and publications have tried to synthesize information from different disciplines and outline future research needs. These efforts have not been well coordinated, however, nor have many of them involved leading scholars with experience in the analysis of human-environmental interactions. This award will partially fund the operations of a Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change to be sponsored by the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (CBASSE) of the National Research Council. Through its meetings and commissioned studies, this committee will (1) assess previous research on the topic, (2) evaluate extant data sources, (3) consider how collaborative research would enhance the generation of knowledge and attract more social and behavioral scientists to conduct work in this important field, and (4) develop a research agenda that could be implemented in the near future. The committee will publish a report with its assessments and recommendations by the summer of 1990. This committee will play a crucial role in the evaluation of research that already has been conducted and in the determination of research strategies that will be most productive in the analysis of the human dimensions of global environmental change. Because of its stature and its experience in the conduct of studies like this, the National Research Council will involve more of the nation's leading scientists in this project and will provide a more effective and wide- spread means of disseminating the conclusions reached by the committee. As a result, future research on this topic will be grounded in a more rationale context than would otherwise evolve.