ASUS: Arctic SUStainability: A Synthesis of Knowledge

该奖项为参与由14个国家发起的全球变化研究计划通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选定的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙论坛是一个高级别的世界组织，S是全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的主要和新兴资助者。其目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国都在一个联合体内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的主题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这一合作研究行动中，合作机构为利用现有北极观测系统、数据集和模型评估北极地区关键的可持续挑战和机遇的研究项目提供支持，为应对这些挑战和机遇创新可持续科学理论和方法，并支持实现可持续北极环境的决策。该奖项为美国研究人员在财团中的合作提供支持，该财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和最终用户(例如，政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业)聚集在一起。北极可持续发展：知识综合(ASUS)将来自加拿大、丹麦、格陵兰、冰岛、挪威、俄罗斯、瑞典和美国的不同专业团队联合起来，制定一个框架，重点介绍北极实现可持续发展的当前理解状况、最佳实践和衡量标准。NSF为ASUS财团的美国团队成员提供支持。在创建这一框架时，这一努力不仅考虑了复原力的社会、人口、经济和环境方面，而且通过一个包容各方的进程，在一系列范围内审视了这些问题，让北极的广泛利益攸关方参与进来。该小组利用在北极可持续性、观察和发展方面的现有投资，为八个工作包(1：可持续北极区域和社区，2：可持续北极环境，3：可持续北极文化，4：可持续北极经济，5：可持续北极城市，6：可持续资源，7：可持续监测，8：可持续治理)提供信息。该小组将通过庞大的国际北极科学协会网络收集和交流进展情况。该项目的合成产品将通过讲习班以及教育和网上材料进行传播。在建造产品和材料时，将考虑北极理事会可持续发展工作组等北极主要利益攸关方。该团队将通过管理的中心星座和委员会结构进行这一综合，以确保这一复杂的、多国努力的持续沟通和协调。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 14-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. 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. 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 this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support for research projects that utilize existing Arctic observing systems, datasets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the Arctic region, to innovate new sustainability science theory and approaches to these challenges and opportunities, and support decision-making towards a sustainable Arctic environment. 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 end users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). Arctic Sustainability: A Synthesis of Knowledge (ASUS) unites a team of diverse expertise from Canada, Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the US to develop a framework that highlights the state of current understanding, best practices, and metrics for achieving sustainability in the Arctic. NSF provides support to the US team members of the ASUS consortium. The effort takes into account not only the social, demographic, economic, and environmental aspects of resilience in creating this framework, but looks at these across a range of scales using an inclusive process that engages a breadth of Arctic stakeholders. The team leverages existing investments in Arctic sustainability, observing, and development to inform the eight work packages (1: Sustainable Arctic Regions and Communities, 2: Sustainable Arctic Environments, 3: Sustainable Arctic Cultures, 4: Sustainable Arctic Economies, 5: Sustainable Arctic Cities, 6: Sustainable Resources, 7: Monitoring of Sustainability, 8: Governance for Sustainability). The team will gather and communicate progress through the vast networks of international Arctic scientific associations. The synthesis products from this project will be disseminated through workshops and through educational and web-based materials. Key Arctic stakeholder, such as the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council, will be considered when constructing products and materials. The team will conduct this synthesis through a managed constellation of centers and a committee structure to ensure continued communication and coordination of this complex, multi-national effort.