RCN-SEES: Network for Utilization of Social Science Research on Sustainability and Energy (NUSSRoSE)

气候变化为人类问题的解决提供了独特的挑战。虽然进化使我们能够应对对生命或肢体的直接威胁，但气候变化是一种缓慢的威胁，从气候科学家的角度来看，他们在很大程度上理解了这一点，他们承认，变化发生的速度或速度存在不确定性。民调显示，即使是被科学说服的美国公众也不把这个问题放在首位，这并不奇怪。然而，现在需要采取重大行动来遏制这一可能在几十年内不会完全显现的威胁。一系列行为科学--包括认知和社会心理学、人类学、行为经济学和社会学--的研究成果日益丰富，它们正在研究人类的认知和动机，并获得对决策过程的洞察。这项研究可能掌握着建立应对气候变化和激励行为变化的支持者的关键。然而，它的成果主要局限于学术文献，而且在很大程度上以程式化的语言锁定，许多非政府组织、企业和其他将从其见解中受益的人并不总是能够理解这些语言。我们的研究协调网络(RCN)旨在使从业者更容易获得从这项工作中获得的见解。目前正在进行的和预期的工作将使人们深入了解应对气候挑战的替代方法及其对前期投资的独特需求，以提供必然不确定和遥远未来的惠益，惠及子孙后代和地理上遥远的地区。该网络将发挥做市商的作用，利用实体和虚拟会议以及一个软件平台，为理论、结果和经验的整合和共享创建一个论坛：(A)跨学科，以促进强有力的交叉受精、额外研究、博士后研究员和初级教师的交叉培训；以及(B)在学术供给方和从业者需求方之间建立更好的双向交流。我们的区域研究中心将帮助建立一个多学科或跨学科的分专业，提高个人工作的地位、形象和影响范围，并建立对机构支持需求的认识，以保持和使用这种研究成果，吸引更多的创造性思维参与到这一努力中，包括年轻的研究人员。同样重要的是，RCN将找到系统的传播方法，并将研究与应用联系起来。它将在一定程度上通过将非政府世界和政府决策者的知识和需求纳入这一平台办法来做到这一点。

Climate change offers a unique challenge for human problem solving. Whereas evolution has equipped us to address immediate threats to life or limb, climate change is a slow-moving threat, largely understood through the eyes of climate scientists, who admit uncertainty in how quickly or slowly change will take place. It is not surprising that polling shows that even the US public persuaded by the science does not give this issue priority. Nevertheless, significant action is required now to contain a threat that may not fully manifest itself for decades. An increasingly rich body of work in a range of behavioral sciences - including cognitive and social psychology, anthropology, behavioral economics and sociology - is examining human cognition and motivation and gaining insights about decision processes. This research may hold the key to building constituencies for addressing climate change and for motivating behavioral change. However, its results are largely confined to academic literature, and locked, for the most part, in stylized language that is not always accessible to the many non-governmental organizations, businesses and others who would benefit from its insights. Our Research Coordination Network (RCN) is designed to make the insights gained from this work more accessible to practitioners. Work now underway and anticipated will provide insights into alternative ways to address climate challenge and its unique demand for upfront investments to deliver benefits that are by necessity uncertain and far into the future, accruing to future generations and to geographically distant regions. The network will act as a market maker, using physical and virtual meetings and a software platform to create a forum for the integration and sharing of theory, results, and experience (a) across disciplinary lines, to stimulate robust cross-fertilization, additional research, cross-training of postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members, and (b) between the academic supply side and the practitioner demand side building better two-way communication between these two communities. Our RCN will help build a multi- or trans-disciplinary sub-specialty that will raise the status, profile and reach of individual efforts as well as create awareness for the need of institutional support to maintain and use research output of this sort, attracting more creative minds into the effort, including young researchers. Equally important, the RCN will find systematic ways for dissemination and to connect research to application. It will do so in part by integrating into this platform approach the knowledge and needs of the non-governmental world and of government policy-makers.