Belmont Forum Bioeconomic Analysis for Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Policy

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。北极海洋资源治理和政策生物经济分析(BAAMRGP)合作研究小组的努力将通过评估和优化多个治理级别的北极海洋资源，解决北极基于生态系统的综合海洋管理的需要。该办法不仅将考虑渔业和自给物种，而且将考虑对间接或非使用有影响的物种、总体生物多样性和生产力，以及海洋生态系统与人类之间的关系，包括健康、商业和管理。来自美国、冰岛、俄罗斯、格陵兰、加拿大、丹麦、挪威和新西兰的研究人员将利用博弈论、生物经济评估和建模以及渔业评估方面的现有数据集和专业知识，与包括北部土著人民在内的各种利益攸关方合作开发博弈模型。这项工作还将考虑根据《极地准则》对现有公约进行修正所产生的不同情况。在这个项目的过程中，一名博士生将接受跨学科科学培训，并获得国际研究经验。

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). The efforts of the Bioeconomic Analysis for Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Policy (BAAMRGP) collaborative research team will address the need for integrated, cross-sectoral ecosystem-based ocean management in the Arctic through the valuation and optimization of Arctic marine resources across multiple levels of governance. The approach will consider not only fisheries and subsistence species, but species with indirect or non-use implications, overall biodiversity and productivity, as well as the relationship between the marine ecosystem and humans, including health, commerce, and management. The researchers from the US, Iceland, Russia, Greenland, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and New Zealand will leverage existing data sets and expertise in game theory, bioeconomic valuation and modeling, and fisheries assessment to develop game models in cooperation with a variety of stakeholders, including indigenous peoples of the north. The effort will also consider different scenarios introduced by amendments to existing conventions under the Polar Code. A PhD student will receive training in interdisciplinary science and gain international research experience during the course of this project.