Global Environmental Assessment Team

作为美国国家科学基金会全球变化的人类维度研究联盟的一部分，该奖项为全球环境评估的合作研究提供支持。这个团队的工作以哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院为基础，但包括来自卡内基-梅隆大学、康奈尔大学和杜克大学以及国际应用系统分析研究所（IIASA）的学者。该项目的目标是提高社会将基于科学的评估纳入逐步制定、实施和评估应对大规模、长期全球环境变化问题的能力。该团队利用各种学科观点进行实证和概念研究，以加深对评估如何进行，评估如何与政策制定、政治和谈判相互作用，以及评估实践如何更有效地促进对全球环境变化的有效社会管理的理解。该小组试图开发更现实的全球变化评估、政策制定和管理之间关系的模型，避免将评估-政策关系视为线性和静态的传统观点，并使用这些模型来批评和改进当前的实践。每年，该团队都会招募一批具有社会科学和自然科学背景的国际博士生和博士后。研究员花一年时间从事环境评估和政策研究，主要在哈佛大学科学与国际事务中心居住，但在其他成员机构也有相当长的时间。该团队每年采用一个主要焦点——对特定全球环境问题的评估经验，或对评估的研究和批评的特定概念方法。每年都有一个为期一周的暑期学院，所有的教师和研究员都将在一个密集的时期内进行合作，将一年的工作成果汇集在一起，并出版一本专著。

As part of an NSF Consortium for Research on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, this award provides support for a collaborative study of global environmental assessment. This team effort is based at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government but involves scholars from Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell, and Duke Universities, and from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). The goal of this project is to improve society's ability to integrate science-based assessments in the progressive development, implementation, and evaluation of responses to large-scale, long-term problems of global environmental change. The team conducts empirical and conceptual research, drawing on a variety of disciplinary perspectives, to advance understanding of how assessment is done, how it interacts with policy-making, politics, and negotiations, and how assessment practice could more usefully contribute to effective social management of global environmental change. The team seeks to develop more realistic models of relationships among assessment, policy making and management of global change, avoiding conventional views of assessment-policy relationships as linear and static, and uses these models to critique and improve current practice. Each year, the team recruits an international group of pre- and post-doctoral fellows, with backgrounds in both social and natural sciences. Fellows spend a year engaged in research on environmental assessment and policy, principally in residence at Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs but with significant periods at the other member institutions. The team adopts one major focus each year -- either assessment experience on a particular global environmental issue, or a particular conceptual approach to the study and criticism of assessment. A one-week summer institute each year brings together all faculty and fellows for an intensive period of collaborative work drawing together the year's work, and producing a monograph for publication.