Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Theory of Change Observatory on Disaster Resilience

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团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。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以处理，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，以支持由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟，以满足日益增长的评估和减少灾害风险的需求，与广泛的利益相关者合作共同设计恢复力战略，并在科学和技术上加强对灾害的反应。 该项目旨在加强撒哈拉以南非洲地区的能力，以更好地评估和应对干旱和洪水风险的影响。 该项目将建立一个基于地方的观测站，以监测环境条件，并开发可帮助决策者制定减轻和管理与洪水和干旱有关的风险的战略的模型。国际项目团队拥有气候学、水文学、遥感、制图、建模、环境风险评估和政策分析方面的专业知识。 该团队将共同努力开发一个新的创新框架，以解决全球范围内的一个重要问题，并有很大的潜力，以推进风险准备。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international 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. 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 to address the growing need for assessment and reduction of disaster risk, collaborative co-design of resilience strategies with a breadth of stakeholders, and scientifically and technologically enhanced responses to disasters. The project seeks to enhance the capacity of regions in Sub-Saharan Africa to better assess and respond to the effects of droughts and flood risk. The project will develop a place-based observatory to monitor environmental conditions and develop models that can aid decision-makers in creating strategies to mitigate and manage risks associated to floods and droughts. The international project team has expertise in climatology, hydrology, remote sensing, cartography, modeling, environmental risk assessment, and policy analysis. The team will work together to develop a new innovative framework to address an important issue worldwide and has great potential to advance risk preparedness.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.