Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Coastal Vulnerability: Global learning for local solutions: Reducing vulnerability of marine-dependent coastal communities

该奖项为参与一个项目的美国研究人员提供支持，该项目由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）和八国集团（G8）国家研究首长理事会（Heads of research council）通过13国全球变化研究计划竞争性地选出。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的世界主要和新兴资助者组成的高层组织。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速进行最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。八国集团研究理事会负责人制定了一个资助框架，以支持以超出国家或双边活动能力的方式应对全球挑战的多边研究项目。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在国际机会基金的首次呼吁下，贝尔蒙特论坛和g8horc共同努力，为研究项目提供支持，这些项目寻求提供行动所需的知识，以减轻和适应与淡水安全或沿海脆弱性有关的有害环境变化和极端危险事件。该奖项为美国研究人员在联盟中合作提供支持，该联盟由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户（如政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）聚集在一起。该奖项支持的研究活动将通过在经历快速变化的气候和社会紧张局势的地区提供和分享知识，通过描述、评估和预测沿海-海洋食物网资源的变化来改善社区适应工作。许多沿海社区依靠海洋资源维持生计和粮食安全。不断增加的人口和相关的社会生态变化通过增加污染、发展、气候变化和生境退化对这些资源施加了压力。该项目将(1)通过评估和描述可能发生的变化，建立区域技能组合，以减少沿海地区的脆弱性；(2)建立预测系统，向决策者通报沿海变化的预期后果；(3)为沿海社区提供适应和转型的备选方案；(4)从经济、社会和环境结果的角度定义选择特定政策和管理方案的长期影响。这项工作将重点关注南半球的变化热点，包括南部非洲、澳大利亚南部和西部、莫桑比克海峡、印度南部和巴西。该项目将有助于了解沿海生物和人类系统的脆弱性，为沿海社区开发可持续的适应途径，并开发有效的机制和专业知识，将循证结果转化为管理战略。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 13-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum and the G8 countries Heads of Research Councils. The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the world's major and emerging funders of global environmental change research and international science councils. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. The G8 Heads of Research Councils developed a funding framework to support multilateral research projects that address global challenges in ways that are beyond the capacity of national or bilateral activities. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in an inaugural call of the International Opportunities Fund, the Belmont Forum and G8HORCs have provided support for research projects that seek to deliver knowledge needed for action to mitigate and adapt to detrimental environmental change and extreme hazardous events that relate to either Freshwater Security or Coastal Vulnerability. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). This award supports research activities that will work to improve community adaptation efforts by characterizing, assessing, and predicting changes in coastal-marine food web resources through the provision and sharing of knowledge across regions experiencing rapidly changing climate and social tensions. Many coastal communities rely on marine resources for livelihoods and food security. Increasing populations and associated socio-ecological changes put pressure on these resources through increased pollution, development, climate changes and habitat degradation. This project will (1) build regional skill-sets to reduce coastal vulnerability by evaluating and characterizing probable changes; (2) create predictive systems to inform decision makers about expected consequences of coastal changes; (3) deliver alternative options for adaptation and transformations for coastal communities; and (4) define long-term implications of selecting particular policy and management options in terms of economic, social, and environmental outcomes. This work will focus on southern hemisphere hotspots of change, including southern Africa, southern and western Australia, Mozambique channel, southern India, and Brazil. This project will contribute to understanding the vulnerability of coastal biological and human systems to develop sustainable adaptation pathways for coastal communities and develop effective mechanisms and expertise to translate evidence-based results into management strategies.