REU Site: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Adaptation

该项目由社会、行为和经济科学局(SBE)的本科生研究经验(REU)站点计划资助。国际社会现在已经认识到，大幅减少碳排放的全球努力不足以遏制环境变化日益恶化的影响。目前的共识认为，我们必须参与建立和传播适应知识，以适应环境变化。该REU计划将通过产生环境适应研究，在其设计和实施过程中综合相关的跨学科和环境正义信息，来处理当前的建议。有鉴于此，这一本科生研究机会为多样化和代表性不足的学生群体提供了获得环境适应研究经验的机会，并更好地了解美国和世界其他地区面临的挑战。为了让本科生为环境适应研究做好准备，该项目利用了南佛罗里达大学不同学科的教师专业知识和研究生导师的多样性，为环境适应研究领域的本科生和以后的研究生课程和职业生涯做好准备。这项研究采用跨学科的方法，采用多层次分析，以更好地了解环境适应的社会、文化、经济、政治和科学问题的障碍和促进者。除了获得实际的研究经验外，学生还将建立网络，获得专业发展能力，并理解跨学科研究。项目的设计将使南佛罗里达大学坦帕湾社区和全国其他最容易受到环境适应影响的社区受益。结果将是一个新兴的年轻研究人员群体，他们接受了环境适应研究跨学科方法的培训，能够理解环境适应问题的复杂性，并以鼓励和产生社会、文化、政治和经济变化的方式合成对该问题的复杂反应。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE). The international community has now realized that the global effort to significantly reduce carbon emissions is insufficient to halt the worsening effects of environmental change. The current consensus holds that we must engage in building and disseminating adaptation knowledge to adjust to environmental change. This REU Program will address current recommendations by producing environmental adaptation research that synthesizes pertinent interdisciplinary and environmental justice information in its design and implementation. In this light, this undergraduate research opportunity offers a diverse and underrepresented group of students the chance to gain research experience on environmental adaptation and have a better understanding of the challenges facing the United States and the rest of the world. In order to prepare undergraduate students for environmental adaptation research at the upper levels and later graduate programs and careers in environmental adaptation research fields, the project draws on the diversity of faculty expertise and graduate student mentors across various disciplines at the University of South Florida. The research uses an interdisciplinary approach that employs multi-level analysis to better understand barriers and facilitators of social, cultural, economic, political, and scientific issues of environmental adaptation. In addition to gaining actual research experience, students will also build networks, acquire professional development abilities, and comprehend interdisciplinary research. Projects will be designed to benefit the University of South Florida’s Tampa Bay community and other communities around the country most vulnerable to the impacts of environmental adaptation. The outcome will be an emerging group of young researchers, trained in interdisciplinary approaches to environmental adaptation research, capable of understanding the complexities of the environmental adaptation problem, and synthesizing complex responses to the problem in ways that encourage and engender social, cultural, political, and economic change.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.