Support for the SSRC Committee for Research on Global Environmental Change

近年来对全球环境变化的日益关注突出表明，除了自然和物理科学家的分析之外，还需要对全球环境变化的人类方面进行社会科学研究。许多组织已经解决了与本主题相关的研究需求和机会的问题；在这些团体中，最重要的是社会科学研究理事会。自1989年成立以来，SSRC的全球环境变化研究委员会组织了跨学科的联盟来开展关键问题的研究，赞助了研讨会和会议，将科学家聚集在一起，制定了论文、奖学金和暑期学习项目的计划，并协调了美国与其他组织的研究活动。包括国际社会科学理事会（ISSC）、国际地圈-生物圈计划（IGBP）、国际应用系统分析研究所（IIASA）和国际地球科学信息网络联盟（CIESIN）。该奖项将继续为SSRC全球环境变化研究委员会提供额外两年的核心支持。委员会期望继续建立跨学科的研究联盟。目前正在考虑的研究课题包括土地产权的比较审查和技术创新的采用。委员会还将继续制定计划并实施创新的教育支持形式，包括博士论文和博士后奖学金计划。委员会的这些和其他具体工作将得到从其他来源筹集的资金的支持。科学研究委员会全球环境变化研究委员会通过其正在进行的工作，将继续确定与全球环境变化的人类方面有关的重要研究问题，这些问题需要社会科学家进行分析。它将有助于汇集来自许多不同学科的科学家来解决重要的概念和方法问题，它将有助于组织跨学科合作来进行研究。通过研讨会、会议和其他论坛，委员会将继续吸引人们对这些重要问题的关注，并通过新的教育计划，使更多的社会科学家能够发展必要的研究技能和专业知识。

Increased concern about global environmental change in recent years has highlighted the need for social scientific research on the human dimensions of global environmental change in addition to analyses by natural and physical scientists. A number of organizations have addressed issues related to research needs and opportunities with respect to this topic; foremost among those groups has been the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Since its establishment in 1989, the SSRC's Committee for Research on Global Environmental Change has organized interdisciplinary consortiums to conduct research on critical problems, sponsored workshops and conferences to bring together scientists, developed plans for dissertation, fellowship, and summer study programs, and coordinated U.S. research activities with those of other organizations, including the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). This award will continue core support for the SSRC Committee for Research on Global Environmental Change for two additional years. The committee expects to continue establishment of interdisciplinary research consortiums. Among the research topics under current consideration are comparative examinations of landed property rights and the adoption of technological innovations. The committee also will continue to develop plans for and to implement innovative new forms of support for education, including doctoral dissertation and post-doctoral fellowship programs. These and other specific efforts of the committee will be supported with funds raised from other sources. Through its ongoing work, the SSRC Committee for Research on Global Environmental Change will continue to identify important research problems related to the human dimensions of global environmental change that require analyses by social scientists. It will help bring together scientists from many different disciplines to address important conceptual and methodological issues, and it will help organize interdisciplinary collaboratives to conduct research. Through workshops, conferences, and other forums, the committee will continue to attract attention to these important issues, and through new educational programs, it will enable more social scientists to develop necessary research skills and expertise.