US-Southern Africa Workshop: Design for an Integrated Regional Model of the Human-Ecosystem-Climate System in Southern Africa, Maputo, Mozambique, July 2000

该奖项支持美国-南部非洲设计南部非洲人-生态系统-气候系统综合区域模式研讨会的9名美国参与者，该研讨会将于2000年7月24-28日在莫桑比克马普托举行。来自马拉维、坦桑尼亚、赞比亚和津巴布韦的四名非洲与会者也得到了支持。此外，还将有大约15名来自莫桑比克的研究人员和政策制定者，以及来自政府和国际筹资机构的代表。联合组织者是弗吉尼亚大学环境科学系的保罗·V·德桑克教授和莫桑比克马普托爱德华多·蒙德莱恩大学农学和林业工程学院的路易莎·桑托斯教授。讲习班的总体目标是促进为非洲系统开发综合区域模式，以便在地方、地区、国家或区域各级的不同管理单位分析环境问题。南部非洲最近发生的洪灾强调，必须处理气候变异性、极端事件、脆弱性以及适应能力和应对措施之间的相互作用。在这次研讨会上，一个由科学家、管理人员和政策制定者组成的跨学科团队将开始制定一项战略的进程，以制定一个区域综合模式，试图捕捉不同学科之间的复杂性和相互联系。此外，还将实地考察莫桑比克林波波河流域的乔克韦。这一地区的洪灾是南部非洲发生的最严重的洪灾之一，它进一步突显了建立综合区域模式的必要性。根据正在开发的Chokwe案例研究，与会者将开始创建一个区域模型，该模型将评估将在研讨会期间讨论的所有联系。这一区域模式将强调将河流流域作为一个管理单元，概括区域共同问题，如土地利用和土地覆盖变化的影响、气候变化的后果、治理的作用和当地社区管理。这次讲习班是多学科努力设计和开发综合模式的一个重要开端，这些模式随后可以进行测试和推广，以解决地方、地区、国家或区域各级的具体问题。由于这次研讨会而制定的区域模式预计将在两到五年内实施。研讨会的结果还应有助于提供重要的档案数据和有关这些洪水的细节，供研究人员今后使用。这次研讨会由国际项目部和环境生物学部共同资助。

0002110DesankerThis award supports nine US participants in the US-Southern Africa Workshop on Design for an Integrated Regional Model of the Human-Ecosystem-Climate System in Southern Africa, to be held in Maputo, Mozambique, July 24-28, 2000. Four African participants, from Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, are also being supported. Additionally, there will be approximately 15 researchers and policy makers from Mozambique, as well as representatives from governmental and international funding agencies. The co-organizers are Professor Paul V. Desanker, of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and Professor Luisa Santos, of the Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry Engineering at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. The overall goal of the workshop is to promote the development of integrated regional models for African systems for analyzing environmental problems at different units of management at local, district, national, or regional levels. The recent flooding in Southern Africa emphasized the need to address the interplay between climate variability, extreme events, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity and responses. At this workshop, an interdisciplinary team of scientists, managers, and policy makers will begin the process of designing a strategy to develop a regional integrated model that will attempt to capture the complexities and interlinkages between the different disciplines. A site visit will also be made to Chokwe, in the Limpopo River basin, Mozambique. The flooding in this area was some of the worst that occurred in Southern Africa, and it further underscored the need for an integrated regional model. Based on a case study of Chokwe that is being developed, participants will begin creation of a regional model which will evaluate all the linkages to be discussed during the workshop. This regional model will emphasize the river basin as a unit of management that encapsulates regional shared issues, such as the impact of land use and land cover change, the consequences of climate variability, the role of governance, and local community management. This workshop represents a significant beginning for a multidisciplinary effort to design and develop integrated models which can then be tested and extended to address specific problems at the local, district, national or regional level. The regional model developed as a result of this workshop is expected to be implemented within two to five years. The workshop results should also contribute important archival data and details about these floods for future use by researchers. This workshop is being jointly funded by the Division of International Programs and the Division of Environmental Biology.