Preparation of an ISSC Plan of Action for Research on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

为了增加我们对原因的了解， 全球环境变化的后果，社会科学家从 世界各地的科学家必须共同努力， 并对自然变化过程做出反应。 许多新的见解将 结果来自独立的研究项目，但协调评估 还需要对现有的研究和研究需求进行鉴定 为了促进合作研究和更有效的工作， 独立学者。 该项目将使国际 社会科学理事会（ISSC）制定一项行动计划， 全球环境变化的人的层面问题供审议 并于1990年底在ISSC大会上通过。 在 在制定这一行动计划时，ISSC的领导和工作人员将 审查关于人类对环境影响的知识现状， 和应对全球环境变化，特别注意 资源使用、认识和评估的社会层面 环境变化的影响以及体制机制对 全球环境。 一些大规模的活动， 对这些问题的多学科理解将是 确定，因为将是一个更大的具体研究项目数量 可以彼此并行或合作进行， 国际基础。 NSF对该项目的支持将是 并由其他国家的资助组织提供赠款。 社科理事会及其十五个附属机构制定研究行动计划 会员工会应提供实质性的刺激， 世界各地的社会科学家的研究。 因为 全球范围的问题，一个国际办法，以确定 以及理解人类和自然系统相互作用的方式 运动规则可以称得上具有本质意义 因为这个项目是由许多学者 国家，ISSC的研究计划最有可能是一个从 国际合作将产生。 因此，该项目应 加速了人类理解各种方式的过程， 与自然环境的相互作用 变化

In order to increase our knowledge about the causes and consequences of global environmental change, social scientists from around the world must work together to shed light on how humans affect and respond to natural processes of change. Many new insights will result from independent research projects, but coordinated assessment of extant research and identification of research needs is also needed in order to facilitate collaborative research and more effective work by independent scholars. This project will enable the International Social Science Council (ISSC) to develop an action plan for research on the human dimensions of global environmental change for consideration and adoption at the ISSC general assembly late in 1990. In establishing this action plan, ISSC leaders and staff members will review the current state of knowledge with respect to human impacts on and responses to global environmental change, paying special attention to social dimensions of resource use, perception and assessment of environmental change, and the effects of institutional mechanisms on the global environment. A few broad-scale activities that should advance multi-disciplinary understanding of these problems will be identified, as will be a larger number of specific research projects that can be conducted in parallel with one another or cooperatively on an international basis. NSF support of this project will be complemented by grants from funding organizations in other nations. Development of an action plan for research by ISSC and its fifteen member unions should provide a substantial stimulus for collaborative research by social scientists throughout the world. Because of the global scale of the problem, an international approach to identifying and understanding the ways in which human and natural systems interact is essential. Because this project is undertaken by scholars from many countries, the ISSC research plan is most likely to be one from which international collaboration will result. This project therefore should speed the process of understanding the myriad ways in which humans interact with the natural environment during these times of rapid change.