Scientific Capacity Building for Global Change Research

全球变化分析、研究和培训系统(START)将促进和支持协作的区域研究网络，让发展中国家的科学家以综合、多学科的方式调查全球环境变化的关键问题。此外，《削减战略武器条约》将制定和协调各项活动，以创新的方式加强传播积累的知识和专门知识，并促进国际合作研究、伙伴关系和交流的新途径。他们将优先考虑人与自然系统之间的相互作用，以及将科学应用于生态系统管理和决策。将通过每年征集提案，以竞争性分奖的形式提供支持，这些提案将优先考虑非洲和亚太地区科学计划中阐明的调查关键区域环境变化问题的多学科小组的提案。《削减战略武器条约》还将与国际地圈-生物圈计划(IGBP)合作，支持一次有来自非洲各地的科学家和其他利益攸关方参加的讲习班，以完善非洲科学计划，特别是设计和开展非洲全球环境变化区域综合研究的战略。预计主要成果将包括：对全球变化科学和变化检测作出直接贡献；加强对全球变化的区域影响和后果的了解；提高将此类信息用于发展中国家规划和决策的能力；以及改进和扩大的非洲和亚太地区的科学家群体，他们与美国、日本和其他发达国家的科学家合作，并正在融入国际全球变化研究网络。

The global change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START) will facilitate and support collaborative regional research networks that engage developing country scientists in investigating critical issues of global environmental change in an integrated, multi-disciplinary manner. In addition, START will develop and coordinate activities that enhance dissemination of accumulated knowledge and expertise in innovative ways and that foster new avenues for international collaborative research, partnership and exchange. They will assign priority to interactions between coupled human and natural systems and application of science to ecosystem management and decision-making. Support will be given in the form of competitive sub-awards through annual calls for proposals that will give priority to proposals from multi-disciplinary teams that investigate critical regional environmental change issues, as articulated in science plans for Africa and for the Asia-Pacific region. START will also, in collaboration with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), support a workshop involving scientists and other stakeholders from across Africa to refine the AfricanNESS science plan, especially strategies for designing and conducting regional integrated studies of global environmental change in Africa.Primary projected outcomes are expected to include: a direct contribution to global change science and change detection; enhanced understanding of regional impacts and consequences of global change; improved ability to use such information for planning and decision-making in developing countries; and an improved and expanded group of scientists in Africa and Asia-Pacific who partner with scientists in the United States, Japan, and other developed countries and who are being integrated into international global change research networks.