RCN - SEES Global Long-term Human Ecodynamics Research Coordination Network: Assessing Sustainability on the Millennial Scale

这笔研究协调网络赠款汇集了国际、多学科的科学家和教育工作者团队，以更好地动员百年至千年规模的长期人类生态动力学案例，帮助国家和全球努力发展未来有效的可持续发展，并为可持续发展教育(ESD)创造资源。这个RCN项目将开发一个合作研究网络，以确定使人们能够在千禧年规模上与环境发展可持续关系的条件，或导致不可持续结果的条件。这一建议得到了广泛的认可，即代际可持续发展教育努力和制定适应管理的长期环境政策不利于短期观察跨度、受限案例池和纪律炉灶管道。该区域协调中心将通过三个相互关联的工作组，促进对真正可持续未来的跨学科千禧年尺度观点的发展；1)通过对代表长期人类生态动力学实验的案例进行系统的区域间比较，建设长期可持续性研究方面的能力？(2)通过共同的数据管理、数字传播和可视化工具，建立网络基础设施支持，既帮助可持续发展研究人员，又与可持续发展教育工作者建立联系；3)通过创新地应用数字技术，加强地方和国家在可持续发展教育方面的倡议和社区对全球变化科学的参与，建立与教育专业人员的直接联系，并使当地社区积极参与可持续发展科学与教育。

This Research Coordination Network grant brings together and international, multi-disciplinary team of scientists and educators to better mobilize cases of long term human ecodynamics on the century to millennial scale to aid national and global efforts to develop effective future sustainable development and to create resources for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This RCN project will develop a collaborative research network that will identify conditions that allow people to develop sustainable relationships with the environment over the millennial scale or have led to unsustainable outcomes. This proposal draws upon widespread recognition that inter-generational sustainability education efforts and formulation of long-term environmental policy for adaptive management are ill served by short observational spans, restricted case pools, and disciplinary stove-piping. This RCN will promote development of a transdisciplinary millennial scale perspective for a genuinely sustainable future through three interlinked working teams; 1) building capacity in long-term sustainability investigations through systematic inter-regional comparison of cases representing long-term human ecodynamics ?experiments? of coupled natural and human systems impacted by climate change, multi-generational human impact, and inter-regional connection; 2) building cyberinfrastructure support through common data management, digital dissemination and visualization tools that both aid sustainability researchers and connect with sustainability educators; 3) Enhancing local and national initiatives in sustainability education and community involvement in global change science by innovative application of digital technology and creating direct links with education professionals and involving active local community participation in sustainability science & education.