Partial support for the 2010/11 to 2011/12 core budget of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research

这笔赠款为美洲全球变化研究所2010/11至2011/12年度核心预算提供部分支持。该提案有两个目标：1)维持和加强IAI？由于未付核心预算捐款，包括美国、墨西哥和委内瑞拉的捐款严重不足而严重缩减的行动；2)通过开发跨这些网络的科学综合，并利用综合过程开发可靠的科学-政策接口，为更好地将科学与跨IAI成员国的决策整合提供持久的结构，从而提高正在进行的IAI研究网络的政策相关性。这一综合是在IAI理事会、科学网络的调查人员和成员国IAI全球变化科学的利益攸关方之间的合作下进行的。该过程还伴随着对这些活动的评估，以确定未来科学计划的最佳实践。预期结果是：1)科学产出更好地融入政策和决策过程，包括持久的全球变化科学治理组织结构；2)最佳实践文件，以指导2011/12年度启动的科学项目，并改进从提案阶段开始的综合和政策整合规定；3)跨项目的科学成果综合和项目间、区域间的技术方法交流，提升持续网络的价值。作为产出，我们期待为政策制定提供科学摘要，为跨项目、地区和学科的经验教训提供知识和见解的科学论文，以及描述和分析整合过程方法并确定最佳实践的出版物。该提案的智力价值在于对2007年以来IAI网络中开展的科学研究进行了批判性的回顾和综合：合作研究网络、人类维度项目、IDRC/加拿大资助的拉普拉塔盆地开发研究项目，以及麦克阿瑟资助的热带安第斯山脉生物多样性和气候变化评估。跨学科分析提供了对自然和耦合的人类环境过程的新见解，通过区域间比较提高了知识。它还通过让IAI的政治代表和民间社会伙伴参与科学综合，使科学可用于政策和决策。科学-政策界面本身的不断发展的整合将由一个分析这些过程的研究组成部分进行评估。评估结果将被记录在针对不同政策部门和决策者的科学治理出版物中。更广泛的影响：通过管理科学-政策参与，建立了科学-政策接口的永久伙伴关系，履行了IAI管理研究以促进知情决策的任务。这加强了IAI在美洲大陆全球变化研究中的作用，并通过与社会不同部门提供更广泛、更深入的科学政策对话，使IAI的政治机构参与进来，从而改善全球变化问题的决策。

This grant provides partial support for the 2010/11 to 2011/12 core budget of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. The proposal has two objectives: 1) to maintain and strengthen the IAI?s operations which have been severely curtailed as a result of unpaid core-budget contributions, including significant shortfalls in the US, Mexican and Venezuelan contributions; and 2) to increase the policy relevance of ongoing IAI research networks by developing a scientific synthesis across these networks, and by using the synthesis process to develop a reliable science-policy interface that provides a lasting structure for a better integration of science with decision making across IAI member countries. The synthesis is conducted in collaboration between the IAI Directorate, investigators in the science networks and stakeholders in IAI global change science in the member countries. The process is accompanied with an assessment of these activities to identify best practices for future science initiatives. Expected outcomes are: 1) an improved integration of science output into policy and decision processes, including lasting organizational structures for the governance of global change science; 2) documentation of best practices to guide science programs to be initiated in 2011/12 with improved provisions for synthesis and policy integration from the proposal stage onwards; and 3) cross-project synthesis of science results and exchanges of technologies and methods between projects and regions to enhance the value of ongoing networks. As output we expect science digests for policy making, scientific papers that provide knowledge and insight into lessons emerging from across programs, regions and disciplines, and publications that describe and analyze approaches to the integration process and identify best practices. The intellectual merit of this proposal lies in the critical review and synthesis of scientific research carried out in current IAI networks since 2007: in the collaborative research networks, human dimensions projects, IDRC/Canada-funded La Plata Basin development research project, and the McArthur-funded assessment of biodiversity and climate change in the tropical Andes. The interdisciplinary analysis provides new insights into natural and coupled human-environmental processes that improve knowledge through inter-regional comparisons. It also makes science available for policy and decision making by involving the IAI political representations and civil society partners in the science synthesis. The evolving integration across the science-policy interface itself will be assessed by a research component that analyzes the processes. The assessment will be documented in publications on science governance for different policy sectors and decision makers. Broader impact: By managing the science-policy engagement, a permanent partnership for science-policy interface is established that fulfils the IAI's mandate to manage research for informed decision making. This strengthens the IAI's role in global change research on the American continent, and involves the political bodies of the IAI by providing a broader, intensified science-policy dialogue with different sectors of society that should lead to improved policy-making on global change issues.