Urbanization and Global Environmental Change International Project Office

该奖项为城市化和全球环境变化（UGEC）项目国际项目办公室（IPO）提供支持，UGEC项目是由国际全球环境变化人类维度计划（IHDP）赞助的一个国际合作研究项目。UGEC自2005年开始运作，协调和促进关于城市地区全球环境变化的新知识的产生和传播，特别强调在社会科学和自然科学以及国家边界之间建立桥梁的合作活动。通过其对新研究项目发展的催化作用及其网络活动，UGEG已成为城市化和全球环境变化研究的国际领导者。国际环境规划署为学者和实践者建立了一个国际跨学科研究协调网络，他们的工作涉及城市与环境界面的各个方面，在城市地区准备应对全球环境变化之际，促进了学者和实践者之间的合作。在UGEC活动的第三阶段，IPO将促进下一代UGEC研究，重点是综合研究结果和将科学与政策联系起来。IPO将通过积极提供对接和综合全球案例研究的平台，促进、协调和传播UGEC领域的科学和政策成果。它还将利用先进的通讯工具组织国际研讨会和会议，继续促进研究与实践之间的联系，并将协助加强UGEC的美国学者和实践者网络与国际同行之间的联系。UGEC IPO将通过促进从新的跨学科知识中产生的综合理解，为UGEC的科学和政策做出重大贡献。它将鼓励将社会科学与自然科学联系起来的创新的概念和方法方法，并将为实现持续的综合活动建立一个新的平台。IPO将在科学和实践的边界上运作，向决策者、从业者和其他不同规模的最终用户传达其综合努力。通过对国际合作研究的支持和对早期职业科学家参与此类努力的鼓励，UGEC IPO帮助解决全球不同背景下城市化的社会、经济和环境后果。

This award provides support for the International Project Office (IPO) of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) project, an international collaborative research project sponsored by the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). UGEC has functioned since 2005, coordinating and facilitating new knowledge generation and dissemination about global environmental change in urban areas, placing special emphasis on collaborative activities that bridge the social and natural sciences as well as national boundaries. Through its catalytic impact on development of new research projects and its networking activities, UGEG has become an international leader in research on urbanization and global environmental change. The IPO has built an international interdisciplinary research coordination network of scholars and practitioners whose work deals with various facets of the interface of cities and the environment, promoting collaboration among academics and practitioners as urban areas prepare to respond to global environmental change. During this third phase of UGEC activity, the IPO will promote the next generation of UGEC research, with an emphasis on synthesizing findings and connecting science to policy. The IPO will promote, coordinate, and disseminate science and policy findings in the UGEC field by actively providing a platform for the docking and synthesis of global case-studies. It also will continue to facilitate connections between research and practice by organizing international workshops and conferences utilizing cutting-edge communication tools, and it will assist in increasing the connections between U.S.-based networks of UGEC scholars and practitioners with their international counterparts.The UGEC IPO will make significant contributions to UGEC science and policy by facilitating integrative and synthetic understanding springing from new interdisciplinary knowledge. It will encourage innovative conceptual and methodological approaches that link the social sciences with the natural sciences, and it will establish a new platform for the realization of continuous synthesis activities. The IPO will operate at the boundary of science and practice, communicating its integrative efforts to decision makers, practitioners, and other end-users at different scales. Through its support for international collaborative research and its encouragement for the involvement of early-career scientists in such efforts, the UGEC IPO helps address the social, economic, and environmental consequences of urbanization in diverse settings around the globe.