Hawaii-Fiji collaboration: workshop on social-ecological resiliency to climate change, preliminary data collection, and methods training

夏威夷-斐济合作：关于气候变化的社会生态复原力、初步数据收集和方法培训的讲习班生活在小岛屿上的人们参与了紧密的反馈循环，使他们敏锐地意识到人为和自然影响如何影响他们的资源。太平洋岛民开发了传统的生态知识和资源管理系统，以应对高度的环境不确定性和资源稀缺性，并可能向我们传授关于人与自然耦合系统的适应能力和复原力的重要教训。夏威夷大学(美国)和南太平洋大学(斐济)的一个跨学科研究小组将举办一次规划讲习班，讲授关于研究耦合的人类自然系统的复原力的社会-生态方法和途径的短期培训班，收集基线数据，并开展合作，有能力测试传统生态知识和传统资源管理是否以及在何种条件下能够提高太平洋岛屿对气候变化的适应能力和复原力。该项目建设了研究和教育方面的能力。它为本科生和研究生提供跨学科的培训，并提供国际研究经验，从而导致更长期的合作。这一举措以太平洋岛民为招募对象，将扩大人数不足群体的参与范围。在不同学科(社会科学和自然科学、海洋和陆地领域)的美国研究人员之间以及拥有互补专业知识的美国和斐济研究人员之间建立合作，该项目开发了一个有能力解决复杂问题的网络，这些问题可以有助于改善应对气候变化的战略的政策。

Hawaii-Fiji collaboration: workshop on social-ecological resiliency to climate change, preliminary data collection, and methods trainingPeople who live on small islands are involved in tight feedback loops that make them acutely aware of how anthropogenic and natural influences affect their resources. Pacific Islanders have developed traditional ecological knowledge and resource management systems to deal with high levels of environmental uncertainty and resource scarcity, and may be able to teach us important lessons about adaptive capacity and resilience in coupled human and natural systems. A cross-disciplinary team of researchers from the University of Hawai?i(USA) and the University of the South Pacific (Fiji) will hold a planning workshop, teach a short training course in social-ecological methods and approaches to studying resilience in coupled human natural systems, collect baseline data, and develop a collaboration that has the capacity to test if and under what conditions traditional ecological knowledge and traditional resource management can enhance adaptation and resilience to climate change in the Pacific Islands. This project builds capacity in research and education. It provides cross-disciplinary training for undergraduate and graduate students and an international research experience that can lead to longer term collaborations. By targeting Pacific Islanders in recruitment, this initiative will broaden the participation of an under-represented group. In establishing a collaboration among US researchers from different disciplines (social and natural sciences, marine and terrestrial spheres), and between US and Fijian researchers with complimentary expertise, this project develops a network that has the capacity to address complex issues that can contribute to policy for improving strategies for resilience and adaptation to climate change.