Core Support for the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme (HDP)

9422176 WIEGANDT全球变化研究的复杂性和广泛性需要来自许多不同学科的科学家之间的国际合作。为促进这一合作，设立了三个主要的国际项目。其中的两个，国际地圈-生物圈计划（IGBP）和世界气候研究计划（WCRP）已经存在了一段时间。第三个项目是在国际社会科学理事会（ISSC）的赞助下于1990年建立的全球环境变化的人类维度项目（HDP）。该奖项将使用从参与美国环境和自然资源委员会全球变化研究小组委员会（CENR/SGCR）的机构收集的资金，通过HDP指导委员会和正在制定重点研究项目的工作组的会议，促进HDP更详细的科学计划的发展。大部分资金将用于支付HDP指导委员会会议和规划新的核心研究项目的工作组会议的参与者支助费用。正在规划的核心研究项目的主题包括能源的生产和消费、环境安全和可持续发展、对全球环境变化的认识和评估以及工业增长。一个工作组还在规划一项全球综合环境调查。除了旅费偿还外，一些经费将用于这些小组成功运作所需的通讯和工作人员。将编写和分发这些小组工作的科学和技术报告。该奖项的资金由美国国家航空航天局提供，作为其对美国全球变化研究计划分布式成本活动贡献的一部分。这些规划活动的成果将是核心的国际合作研究项目，这些项目将为全球变化的分析、建模和解释提供投入。HDP的核心研究项目也应该帮助美国和其他国家的决策者探索适应和减缓全球变化的选择。

9422176 WIEGANDT The complex, wide-ranging nature of global change research requires international collaboration among scientists from many different disciplines. To facilitate this collaboration, three major international programs have been established. Two of these, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), have been in existence for some time. A third program, the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme (HDP) was established in 1990 under the sponsorship of the International Social Science Council (ISSC). This award will use funds gathered from agencies participating in the Subcommittee for Global Change Research of the U.S. Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR/SGCR) to facilitate development of a more detailed science plan for the HDP through the conduct of meetings of the HDP Steering Committee and working groups that are developing focused research programs. Most funds will go to pay participant support costs for meetings of the HDP Steering Committee and for meetings of working groups planning new core research projects. Topics for which core research projects are being planned include the production and consumption of energy, environmental security and sustainable development, perception and assessment of global environmental change, and industrial growth. One working group also is engaged in planning for a global omnibus environmental survey. In addition to travel reimbursement, some funds will be used for communication and staffing needed for successful operation of these groups. Scientific and technical reports of the work of these groups will be prepared and distributed. Funds for this award have been provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of its contribution to distributed- cost activities of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The outcomes of these planning activities will be core international, coll aborate research projects that will provide input into the analysis, modeling, and interpretation of global change. HDP core research projects also should assist policy makers in the U.S. and other nations in exploring options for adapting to and mitigating global change.