Small Grant Program for the Human Dimensions SGP-HD

随着全球环境变化科学从全球范围转向区域范围，从全球过程转向细节和复杂性，从观察和建模转向影响，其重点日益放在适应、缓解和风险评估的科学基础上。所有这些都是社会建构的。因此，对全球变化的人类层面的科学分析正成为全球变化生物物理研究的一个重要组成部分。通过合作研究网络（CRN II）， IAI建立了一个新的全球变化科学项目，主要侧重于生物物理研究。IAI理事会通过将项目联系起来、发起区域和专题合作以及朝着更加平衡的跨学科科学方向发展，在CRN II内发展国际和跨学科科学方面发挥了积极作用。加强CRN II中的社会科学是IAI的科学议程及其对平衡研究组合的需求所规定的一项任务。这个新的资助项目将建立在CRN II建立的强大的跨学科网络的基础上，旨在加强IAI科学议程的主题IV——人的维度和政策影响。该计划将与CRN II一起开发一个强大的人类维度研究，特别强调复杂和动态耦合的人类和生物物理系统。该活动的具体智力价值在于人文维度小额资助计划不仅要求有自己学科重点的人文维度项目，而且将广泛的人文科学作为CRN II下新一代自然科学项目的组成部分。人文科学与资助的CRN II项目的真正整合不仅将为当前的CRN II研究提供新的方向，而且将为全球变化科学提供新的方向。人的维度研究在很大程度上是在与自然科学研究相同的学科重点下进行的。在现有CRN II网络主题的基础上，“社会生态系统对全球变化的脆弱性和适应性”这一总体主题将为人类维度领域的真正综合研究提供机会，如城市中心和城市化、农村转型和可持续性、适应和全球环境变化（GEC）的制度维度、人类健康或脆弱地区和社区的管理。主题优先事项将是关于人的方面的研究，以期与核定的第二次生态环境评估项目产生协同作用，并讨论当前和未来社会生态系统对全球环境变化的脆弱性和适应性。预计第二期环境评估与这一新的努力相结合，将大大提高美洲处理全球环境变化问题及其社会和经济原因和影响的区域能力，从而产生更广泛的影响。综合方法将提供合理的科学理解，以支持该区域的可持续发展和适应全球变化。正如CRN第二期方案所强调的那样，主要挑战将是为记录、了解和预测地球生命维持系统的变化提供尽可能最好的科学依据，并促进在就可能的适应或缓解应对战略制定政策和决策时充分利用科学信息。

As Global Environmental Change Science moves from a global scale to the regional, from global process to detail and complexity, and from observation and modeling to impact, its emphasis is increasingly on the scientific foundations of adaptation, mitigation and the assessments of risk. All these are socially constructed. The scientific analysis of the human dimensions of global change is therefore becoming a crucial component of the biophysical investigation of global change. With the collaborative research networks (CRN II) the IAI has established a new global change science program which is largely focused on biophysical research. The IAI Directorate has taken an active role in developing international and interdisciplinary science within CRN II by linking projects, initiating regional and topical cooperation and moving towards a more balanced interdisciplinary science. Strengthening the social sciences in CRN II is a task prescribed by the IAI's science agenda and its need for a balanced research portfolio. This new grant program will build on the strong interdisciplinary networks created in CRN II and is designed to strengthen Theme IV, Human Dimensions and Policy Implications, of the IAI Science Agenda. The program is to develop a strong human dimensions research in conjunction with CRN II with specific emphasis on complex and dynamic coupled human and biophysical systems. The specific intellectual merit of the activity is that the Small Grants Program for the Human Dimensions does not only call for human dimensions projects with their own disciplinary focus, but integrates a broad range of human science as an integral part of the new generation of natural science projects under CRN II. A genuine integration of the human sciences with funded CRN II projects will provide new directions not only in current CRN II research but in global change science. Human dimensions research has largely been conducted in much the same disciplinary focus as the natural science research. On the basis of the topics of existing CRN II networks, an overarching theme of 'vulnerability and adaptability of socio-ecological systems to global change' will provide opportunities for truly integrated research on human dimensions areas such as urban centers & urbanization, rural transformation and sustainability, institutional dimensions of adaptation and Global Environmental Change (GEC), human health or management of vulnerable zones and communities. The thematic priority will be on human dimensions research for topics with which synergies are expected with approved CRN II projects and that address current and future vulnerability and adaptability of socio-ecological systems to GEC. The combination of CRN II with this new effort is expected to provide broader impacts by significantly enhancing the regional capacity to deal with global environmental change issues and their social and economic causes and effects in the Americas. The integrative approach will provide sound scientific understanding in support of sustainable development and adaptation to global change in the region. The major challenge, as highlighted in the CRN II program, will be to provide the best possible scientific basis for documenting, understanding and projecting changes in the Earth's life-support system and to facilitate full use of scientific information in policy and decision making on possible response strategies for adaptation or mitigation.