National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center

该奖项建立了一个新的环境综合中心，将促进自然科学和社会科学的研究，教育和推广，以开发新颖有效的解决方案来应对全球环境挑战。该中心的成立计划要求社会和自然科学家在一个促进的过程中相互参与，导致综合项目的共同完善和超越学科界限的问题的框架。该计划以四个关键目标为基础：建立新的联盟;各级学习;扩大和改进综合进程;以及建立一个灵活、适应性强的机构。这些目标将通过社区驱动的活动来实现，这些活动鼓励采用多种协作方法，包括分布式互动、利用社交媒体巩固来自广泛支持者的集体知识、数据可视化和设计图表。通过参与创新活动的多个学科，该中心承诺在如何完成合成和付诸实践的根本重组。 该中心将通过结合来自基础研究、公共政策、科学翻译和教育的不同观点来推进环境综合科学。来自未来资源的政策学者，沿着政策制定者，自然资源管理者和政府机构的科学家，将是中心所有活动的组成部分。该中心提供了一个前所未有的机会，通过倡导将综合作为一个包括各级学习的过程，来建设能力和扩大参与。学生将接受培训，掌握进行综合所需的技能，并直接参与综合过程，特别关注听力和身体受损的学生，市中心的城市学生，非传统学生和少数民族。该中心愿景的一个关键方面是推进合成过程本身。通过对中心活动和产品的持续评价和评估，以及根据评价结果调整中心理念和管理，中心将发挥实验室的作用，促进对合成过程的了解和改进。

This award establishes a new environmental synthesis center that will stimulate research, education, and outreach at the interface of the natural and social sciences in order to develop novel and effective solutions to global environmental challenges. The center's founding plan requires mutual engagement of social and natural scientists in a facilitated process that leads to joint refinement of synthesis projects and the framing of questions that transcend disciplinary boundaries. This plan is grounded in four key goals: the creation of new coalitions; learning at all levels; expansion and improvement of the synthesis process; and creation of a flexible, adaptive institution. These goals will be achieved through community-driven activities that encourage diverse methods of collaboration including distributed interactions, the use of social media to consolidate collective knowledge from a broad constituency, data visualization, and design charrettes. Through engagement of multiple disciplines in innovative activities, the center promises a fundamental reorganization in how synthesis is accomplished and put into practice. The Center will advance environmental synthesis science by combining diverse perspectives - those from basic research, public policy, science translation, and education. Policy scholars from Resources for the Future, along with policy makers, natural resource managers, and scientists from governmental agencies, will be integral to all center activities. The center presents an unprecedented opportunity to build capacity and broaden participation by advocating synthesis as a process that includes learning at all levels. Students will be trained in the skills needed to carry out synthesis and engaged directly in the synthesis process, with particular focus on hearing- and physically-impaired students, inner-city urban students, non-traditional students, and ethnic minorities. A key aspect of the center's vision is to advance the process of synthesis itself. Through continual evaluation and assessment of center activities and products, and adjustments to center philosophy and management in response to this evaluation, the center will function as a laboratory to facilitate learning about and improving the process of synthesis.