Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Synthesis Process and Conference

对综合地球系统的人类和自然组成部分之间复杂相互作用的研究突出表明，需要了解人类的个人和集体观念和行动，因为人们既作为个人又作为团体和机构的成员活动。机构作为大规模环境变化的原因以及通过直接反应和通过建立对不断变化的环境条件作出反应的框架而发挥突出作用。该奖项继续支持全球环境变化制度维度（IDGEC）项目的国际项目办公室（IPO）。IDGEC是由国际科学联盟理事会（ICSU）监督、国际社会科学理事会（ISSC）合作的全球环境变化国际人文维度计划（IHDP）的四大核心项目之一。IDGEC科学计划指导了一个研究项目，研究机构在引起和应对大规模环境变化方面的作用。该计划侧重于因果关系、性能和设计问题，并将注意力集中在与制度契合、相互作用和规模相关的分析主题上。IDGEC IPO提供了一系列服务，旨在最大限度地提高IDGEC项目成功实现科学计划目标的可能性。IPO承担的职能包括为IDGEC科学指导委员会（项目的主要管理机构）配备人员；与IHDP的工作人员和领导进行联络；推广IDGEC科学；展示和发表IDGEC的科学成果；管理和动员IDGEC网络。该奖项将继续这一努力，直到IDGEC作为正式科学项目运作的最后阶段。该奖项将支持一个综合过程，该过程将在2006年12月的一次主要会议上达到高潮，以“收获”IDGEC的主要科学发现。它还将提供支助，探讨这些调查结果的政策相关性，并确定在该领域下一阶段工作中适合强调的关键主题。通过这一奖项提供的资金将用于支助综合会议的规划和运作，以及编写会议后出版的手稿。IDGEC-IPO通过催化和协调追求共同研究议程的全球科学家网络，在这一研究项目的成功中发挥了关键作用。通过继续支持IPO和将使IDGEC正式结束的综合活动，将加强针对这一系列重要问题开展当前和未来国际合作的基础设施，美国将向其他国家发出关于重大国际合作努力的价值和效用的积极信号

Research on the complex interactions among human and natural components of the integrated Earth system have highlighted the need to understand both individual and collective perceptions and actions of human beings, because people operate both as individuals and as members of groups and institutions. Institutions figure prominently both as causes of large-scale environmental changes and through direct response and through establishment of the frameworks of responses to changing environmental conditions. This award continues support for the International Project Office (IPO) of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) project. IDGEC is one of four major core projects of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change Programme (IHDP), which is an international collaborative research program overseen by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), with cooperation from the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The IDGEC Science Plan has guided a research program that has addressed the role of institutions in causing and confronting large-scale environmental changes. The plan focused on issues of causality, performance, and design, and it drew attention to analytic themes relating to institutional fit, interplay, and scale. The IDGEC IPO has provided a range of services designed to maximize the likelihood of IDGEC projects being successful in meeting the goals of the science plan. Among the functions undertaken by the IPO were staffing for the IDGEC Science Steering Committee, the project's main administering body; conducting liaison with IHDP staff and leaders; promoting IDGEC science; presenting and publishing IDGEC scientific results; and managing and mobilizing the IDGEC network. This award will continue that effort into the final phase of IDGEC's operation as a formal scientific program. The award will support a synthesis process that will culminate in a major conference in December 2006 to "harvest" the principal scientific findings of IDGEC. It also will provide support to explore the policy relevance of these findings and to identify key themes suitable for emphasis during the next phase of work in this field. Funds made available through this award will provide support for the planning and operation of the synthesis conference as well as the preparation of manuscripts for publication following the conference. The IDGEC-IPO has played a critical role in the success of this research project by catalyzing and coordinating a global network of scientists pursuing a common research agenda. Through continued support for the IPO and the synthesis activities that will bring IDGEC to its formal conclusion, the infrastructure for the conduct of current and future international collaborations focusing on this important set of problems will be strengthened, and the U.S. will give a positive signal to other nations regarding the value and utility of major international collaborative efforts