US-Africa Workshop: Integrated Land Use Change in Southern Africa: Process Modeling, Impacts, and Implications for Sustained Development, Zomba, Malawi, July 2002

该奖项支持16名与会者(9名来自美国，7名来自非洲)参加定于2002年7月8日至12日在马拉维宗巴举行的“南部非洲综合土地利用变化：过程建模、影响和对可持续发展的影响”的美非研讨会。联合组织者是弗吉尼亚大学环境科学系的Paul Desanker教授和马拉维Mzuzu大学环境科学系的Mzoma Nguube教授。总共将有大约27人参加，他们将来自美国、马拉维、莫桑比克、坦桑尼亚、南非、莱索托、赞比亚和津巴布韦的学术界和政府组织。讲习班将利用土地复盖-土地利用变化的过程研究，以推动关于可持续发展科学这一新兴领域如何为复杂的人类生态系统的可持续发展提供信息和指导的讨论。预计这次会议还将在美国和非洲的研究人员之间建立联系，以发展合作、跨学科的研究和教育项目。人们使用土地的方式对许多国家的生计、政治稳定和经济至关重要，特别是在严重依赖陆地经济活动的南部非洲。虽然土地利用的不利影响是众所周知的，但它们还没有得到很好的量化。讲习班的参加者将侧重于更好地了解南部非洲土地利用变化的过程、速率和模型，特别是大赞比西河流域及其组成部分、Miombo生物多样性生态区和整个南部非洲内相互关联的人类-河流流域-生态系统。会议将包括全体会谈和小组讨论，还将包括实地考察马拉维湖和奇尔瓦湖流域内正在进行的项目。预计讲习班的结果将导致对赞比西地区土地利用变化的最先进的综合。更广泛地说，会议的发现将向更大的科学界提供关于将LCLUC的基础、多学科研究整合到可持续发展计划中的信息。这些信息也将对政策制定者和资源管理者有用。该项目支持来自美国的五名初级研究人员以及一名来自非洲的博士后和研究生的参与。国际科学和工程学办公室、行为和认知科学司以及环境生物学司共同支持这一奖项。

0218022DesankerThis award supports 16 participants (nine from the United States and seven from Africa) in a US-Africa Workshop on "Integrated Land Use Change in Southern Africa: Process Modeling, Impacts, and Implications for Sustained Development," scheduled for July 8-12, 2002, in Zomba, Malawi. The co-organizers are Professor Paul Desanker, with the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and Professor Mzoma Ngulube, with the Faculty of Environmental Science at Mzuzu University, Malawi. There will be a total of approximately 27 participants, who will be drawn from academia and governmental organizations in the United States, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The workshop will draw upon process studies of land cover-land use change (LCLUC) to advance the discussion of how the emerging field of sustainability science can inform and guide the sustained development of complex human-ecological systems. The meeting is also expected to establish linkages between investigators in the United States and Africa for the development of collaborative, interdisciplinary research and education programs.The way people use land is fundamental to the livelihoods, political stability, and economies of many countries, especially in Southern Africa where there is a heavy reliance on land-based economic activities. And while the adverse impacts of land use are well known, they have not yet been well quantified. Workshop participants will focus on better understanding the processes, rates, and modeling of land use change in Southern Africa, especially for the linked human-river basin-ecological systems within the greater Zambezi River Basin and its components, the Miombo biodiversity ecoregion, and Southern Africa in general. The meeting will consist of plenary talks and small group discussions, and will also include site visits to examine ongoing projects within the Lake Malawi and Lake Chilwa basins. It is expected that the results of the workshop will lead to a state-of-the art synthesis of land use change for the Zambezi region. More broadly, the meeting's findings will inform the larger scientific community about integrating fundamental, multidisciplinary research studies on LCLUC into sustained development programs. This information will also be useful to policy makers and resource managers. Results will be disseminated through professional journals and meetings, and via a web site.The project supports the participation of five junior investigators from the United States, as well as a postdoc and graduate student from Africa.The Office of International Science and Engineering, the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, and the Division of Environmental Biology jointly support this award.