Coastal SEES (Track 1): Understanding the links between local ecological knowledge, ecosystem services, and community resilience

人类和自然系统以复杂的方式相互联系。了解这些社会生态系统是如何以及如何具有弹性的，构成了当今世界最紧迫的问题之一。对于许多沿海社区来说尤其如此，它们很容易受到变化的影响。几千年来发展起来的当地生态知识系统历来使沿海社区的居民能够适应沿海社区特有的极端天气。然而，人们对这些系统所涉及的复杂模式和过程及其提高应对气候变化能力的潜力知之甚少。本研究以整合社会-生态复原力理论和方法、民族生物学和生态系统服务模型的概念框架为基础。它结合了长期存在的社会和生态数据集、新的实验，以及多个地点最先进的气候和生态系统服务建模，提出了以下问题：(1)当地生态知识系统与社会-生态变化适应能力之间有什么关系？以及(2)在不同的情景下，不同的陆地和海洋利用将如何影响相互关联的脊礁环境中的社会生态复原力和生态系统服务？这项研究涉及一个跨学科的国际研究团队，他们跨越了自然科学和社会科学，并在海洋和陆地领域架起了桥梁。这项研究预计将通过提高当地管理沿海地区可持续性的决策能力，并有助于制定应对和适应气候变化的政策，从而直接造福社会。它与针对本科生和研究生的跨学科和国际教育和培训活动相结合，特别是针对在科学界代表性不足的群体的成员。它将加强和扩大由研究人员和资源管理人员组成的跨学科、跨国家的网络。所制作的模型将通过确定如何最大限度地利用生态系统服务和社会生态复原力，为太平洋岛屿沿海系统的管理提供预测性价值。

Human and natural systems are interlinked in complex ways. Understanding how these social-ecological systems are and can be resilient poses one of the most pressing problems of our world today. This is especially true for many coastal communities, which are vulnerable to changes. The local ecological knowledge systems developed over millennia have historically allowed residents of coastal communities to be resilient to the weather extremes that can characterize coastal communities. However, the complex patterns and processes involved in these systems, and their potential to enhance resilience to climate change today are poorly understood. This research is grounded in a conceptual framework that integrates social-ecological resilience theory and methods, ethnobiology and ecosystem service modeling. It draws on a combination of long-term existing social and ecological datasets, new experiments, and state-of the art climate and ecosystem service modeling in multiple sites to ask: (1) What are the relationships between local ecological knowledge systems and social-ecological resilience to change? and (2) How will different land and ocean uses affect social-ecological resilience and ecosystem services in linked ridge-reef settings, under different scenarios? This research involves an interdisciplinary, international research team that crosses the natural and social sciences and bridges the marine and terrestrial fields. This research is expected to have direct benefits to society by enhancing local capacity in decision making to manage coastal areas for sustainability, and contributing to policy development in resilience and adaptation to climate change. It is integrated with interdisciplinary and international educational and training activities for undergraduate and graduate students, especially members of groups underrepresented in the sciences. It will strengthen and extend an interdisciplinary cross-national network of researchers and resource managers. The models produced will provide predictive value for the management of Pacific Island coastal systems by identifying how ecosystem services and social-ecological resilience can be maximized.