Leadership Support of the Board on Environmental Change and Society

该项目旨在通过动员社会和行为科学来解决环境挑战的社会、政治、经济和公平方面的问题，从而为国家服务。环境变化与社会委员会（BECS）吸引了来自不同学科和从业者社区的全国公认的专家，为国家和世界在环境变化与社会的交叉点面临的日益紧迫和复杂的挑战确定和提供解决方案。BECS为研究人员、公众、媒体、国会、专业协会、国家科学基金会和其他联邦机构提供了一个客观、独立和严格的审议平台。为响应社会需求和联邦机构及其他赞助者的明确要求而开展的共识研究、讲习班、专家会议、研讨会和虚拟活动等活动是委员会工作的基础。主题领域包括气候变化、对社会系统的环境冲击、能源转型、城乡鸿沟、土地利用变化，以及通过推进自然科学和社会科学之间的伙伴关系和合作，推进新的研究方向，为社会提供利益。以下主题将在该奖项覆盖的三年内得到解决：确定交叉研究的新路线；增加解决方案领域之间更大的协调和集成；促进社区参与，使解决方案更全面地解决社区需求和公平问题。在政府和整个社会面临的复杂科学挑战中，更好地了解人类活动与环境之间的相互作用是至关重要的。社会和行为科学是推进人类和社会如何应对和促进全球环境变化的行为和相互作用知识的基础。通过加入社会科学和自然科学来研究这种相互作用，BECS为推进科学知识提供了一个独特的论坛，同时提供了改善社会福祉的解决方案。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the nation by mobilizing the social and behavioral sciences to address social, political, economic, and equity dimensions of environmental challenges. The Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) draws on nationally recognized experts from different disciplines and practitioner communities to identify and inform solutions for the increasingly urgent and complex challenges facing the nation and the world at the intersection of environmental change and society. BECS provides a unique platform for objective, independent, and rigorous deliberation among researchers, the public, the media, Congress, professional associations, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies. Activities such as consensus studies, workshops, expert meetings, seminars, and virtual events in response to societal needs and explicit requests from federal agencies and other sponsors are the foundation of the Board’s work. Topical areas include climate change, environmental shocks to social systems, energy transitions, the rural/urban divide, land-use changes, and advancing new lines of research to provide benefits to society through advancing partnerships and collaborations between the natural and social sciences. The following themes will be addressed in the three years covered by this award: identifying new lines of cross-cutting research; increasing greater coordination and integration across solution areas; and advancing community engagement so that solutions more comprehensively address community needs and equity issues. Among the complex scientific challenges faced by the government and society at large, better insight into the interactions between human activities and the environment is paramount. The social and behavioral sciences are the foundation for advancing knowledge about how people and societies behave and interact while both responding to and contributing to global environmental change. By joining the social sciences and natural sciences to examine such interactions, BECS provides a unique forum for advancing scientific knowledge while informing solutions to improve societal well-being.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.