CNIC: Planning visits to develop U.S. - Costa Rica - Asia collaborative research and education initiatives in biodiversity and sustainability in the tropics

可持续性研究考察了人类与自然其他部分之间复杂的相互作用，这些相互作用导致了气候、土地利用和其他环境变化。虽然可持续性研究越来越多地包括在温带地区，但它们很少包括在热带生态系统的研究中。该奖项将支持哥斯达黎加和中国的研讨会，以促进将可持续性纳入热带生物多样性研究。该项目将汇集来自热带研究组织（OTS）、中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园（XTBG-CAS）和热带森林科学中心（CTFS）的现有研究团队，以及社会科学家和政策制定者，就如何最好地将可持续性问题纳入热带系统研究提出建议。可持续性研究认识到同时考虑社会、经济和自然方面对热带系统长期生存能力的重要性。在美国、哥斯达黎加和亚洲科学家之间建立一个联盟将为这三个地区的学生、博士后、初级和资深科学家创造研究、教育和培训机会，这将对热带系统的研究产生长期和深远的影响。人们期望这些研讨会将促进研究，从而实现热带地区可持续社会、经济和生态系统的长期目标。

Sustainability research examines the complex interactions between humans and the rest of nature, which have resulted in climate, land-use, and other environmental changes. Although sustainability studies are increasingly included within temperate regions, they are rarely included within studies of tropical ecosystems. This award will support workshops in Costa Rica and China to foster the inclusion of sustainability within biodiversity research in the tropics. The project will bring together existing teams of researchers from the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XTBG-CAS) and the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) plus social scientists and policy developers to develop recommendations on how best to incorporate sustainability questions within tropical systems research.Sustainability research recognizes the importance of simultaneously considering social, economic and natural aspects to the long-term viability of tropical systems. Forming an alliance among US, Costa Rican and Asian scientists will create research, education and training opportunities for students, post-docs, junior and established researchers in each of the three regions that will have long term and far reaching impacts on research in tropical systems. The expectation is that these workshops will catalyze research leading to the long-term goal of sustainable social, economic and ecological systems in the tropics.