Core Support for the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) of the National Research Council (NRC)

该奖项将继续支持美国国家科学院国家研究委员会环境变化与社会委员会（BECS）的核心业务。自1990年以来，该委员会一直以其当前和以前的名称运作，通过促进对人类与自然环境相互作用的综合分析来推进科学和环境决策。它与项目发起人合作，开发以问题为中心的产品，并展示社会和行为科学在识别和提供环境挑战解决方案方面的明确作用。BECS将为社会和行为科学研究界澄清环境研究的需求和机会，以促进这些领域的科学家参与研究，在社会面临日益复杂的环境问题时，这些研究将产生具有学术和实用价值的新信息和见解。BECS将特别注意社会和行为科学与自然科学的结合，以帮助确定环境决策者所面临的问题的自然和社会背景。它将有助于评估社会科学和行为科学见解的效用，并将有助于加强政府机构和其他机构开发和应用的分析和决策支持工具的科学基础。除了与赞助商合作开展以问题为重点的特别研究，其研究结果将得到广泛传播外，BECS还将在其半年度会议的同时举办以问题为重点的专题讨论会。这些专题讨论会将进行网络直播，以便无法出席的学者和实践者能够在专题讨论会期间和之后从这些讨论中受益。网络直播研讨会和其他BECS产品的好处将包括有助于推进社会和行为科学中环境主题基础研究的见解，并协助联邦机构和其他政府实体、非政府组织、私营公司和教育机构使用这些见解。环境变化与社会委员会进行的核心活动之一是维持国家科学院对人与环境问题综合分析的要求作出反应的能力。BECS还将继续培养自然科学家与社会和行为科学家之间的合作联系，以提高对基础知识的科学贡献以及这些知识在环境设置中的应用。BECS还将通过举办以问题为中心的专题讨论会来促进对当前和未来研究方向的讨论。最后，BECS将作为一个监督机构，在其他联邦机构的要求下进行重点研究和活动。

This award will continue support for core operations of the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. This board has functioned under its current and previous names since 1990 to advance science and environmental decision making by promoting integrated analysis of the human interactions with the natural environment. It works with project sponsors to develop products that are problem-focused and that demonstrate a clear role for the social and behavioral sciences in identifying and informing solutions to environmental challenges. BECS will clarify environmental research needs and opportunities for the social and behavioral science research community in order to facilitate the involvement of scientists in these fields to engage in research that will have yield new information and insights of scholarly and practical value as society faces increasingly complex environmental issues. BECS will pay particular attention to the integration of the social and behavioral sciences with the natural sciences in helping ascertain the natural and social contexts of problems faced by environmental decision makers. It will help assess the utility of insights from the social and behavioral sciences to address, and it will help to sharpen the scientific underpinning for analytic and decision-support tools to be developed and applied by governmental agencies and others. In addition to working with sponsors to conduct special problem-focused studies whose findings are widely disseminated, BECS will conduct problem-focused symposia in conjunction with its semi-annual meetings. These symposia will be webcast to enable scholars and practitioners unable to attend to benefit from these discussions during the symposia and afterwards. Benefits from the webcasted symposia and from other BECS products will include insights to help advance fundamental research on environmental topics in the social and behavioral sciences and to assist in the use of those insights by federal agencies and other governmental entities, non-governmental organizations, private firms, and educational organizations.Among the core activities undertaken by the Board on Environmental Change and Society are the maintenance of capacity at the National Academies to respond to requests for integrated analyses of human-environment issues. BECS also will continue nurturing collaborative links between natural scientists and social and behavioral scientists to improve scientific contributions to basic knowledge and applications of that knowledge in environmental settings. BECS also will promote discussions regarding current and future research directions through the conduct of problem-focused symposia in concert with its semi-annual meetings. Finally, BECS will serve as an oversight body for the conduct of focused studies and activities undertaken at the behest of other federal agencies.