Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: ClimateWIse: Climate-Smart Watershed Investments in the Montane Tropics of South America

该奖项为参与由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）发起的全球变化研究六国倡议竞争性选拔项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个世界性的团体。全球环境变化研究的主要和新兴资助者。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。每个伙伴组织为来自本国的研究人员提供资金，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。这六个伙伴组织在“合作研究行动”中共同努力，为利用强有力的跨学科和跨学科方法研究山区气候、环境和相关社会变化的研究项目提供支持。该奖项为美国研究人员在一个由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中合作提供支持，该联盟将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户（如决策者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）聚集在一起。在整个南美洲，数以百万计的人依赖来自高海拔水源的水，而这些水源正面临着土地利用和环境变化带来的越来越大的压力。该项目旨在通过提高对热带山区土地利用和环境变化的水文影响的科学认识，增加基于生态系统服务的管理的科学基础，并促进整个地区用水用户的成果，从而加强可持续水管理。研究结果将直接用于南美洲内外的水资源管理。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a six-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research. 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 organization provides funding for researchers from their country 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 a Collaborative Research Action, the six partner organizations have provided support for research projects that utilize a strong inter- and trans-disciplinary approach to examine climate, environmental, and related societal change in mountain regions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in a consortium of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that brings together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). Throughout South America, millions of people depend on water from high-elevation water sources, which are under increasing pressure from land-use and environmental change. This project seeks to enhance sustainable water management by improving scientific understanding of the hydrologic impacts of land-use and environmental changes in tropical mountains, increasing the scientific foundation for ecosystem services-based management, and advancing outcomes for water users throughout the region. The findings will be of direct use for water management within and beyond South America.