Coordination Funds

在世界各地，人口增长和对自然资源需求的增加导致生物多样性和生态系统服务的丧失，主要是由土地使用、气候和治理变化造成的。因此，一个关键的全球性挑战是发展人与自然之间的可持续关系。解决这一紧迫的问题需要社会生态学研究，以了解自然与人之间反馈回路的主要组成部分，包括生物多样性、自然对人类的贡献、人类福祉、治理以及间接和直接的人为驱动因素。然而，这种综合的社会生态研究方法仍处于起步阶段，目前的建议解决了这些挑战，在基利曼哈罗，一个优秀的研究区域，独特的大环境梯度和不寻常的各种利益相关者群体。在Kili-SES中，我们将使用完全集成的跨学科方法来了解土地使用，气候和治理变化下的基利曼哈罗社会生态系统的主要组成部分。我们解决了广泛的生物多样性组成部分的调节，物质和非物质NCP的供应的影响。我们调查了NCP的供应与主要利益相关者群体对它们的需求，它们赋予它们的价值以及它们对人类福祉的不同组成部分的影响。我们认为，制度和治理体系如何决定土地利用和供应的NCP。最后，我们讨论了土地管理和保护措施对生物多样性的直接影响。该提案建立在第一个生态基利曼哈罗研究单位和A.和C.大麻将通过各种自然和社会科学方法获得数据。这将包括在65块既定研究地块上对NCP进行代表性抽样。除此之外，还将从各个利益相关者群体获得采访、调查和社会现场实验的数据。将地块和利益相关者数据的空间属性与遥感信息相结合，将使我们能够在整个研究区域升级数据，我们的方法将使我们能够定量地描述和整合基利曼哈罗社会生态系统的主要组成部分及其在空间上明确的相互联系。例如，我们计划分析NCP供应的权衡和协同作用，NCP供应和需求之间的匹配和不匹配，以及治理，NCP需求和人类福祉之间的关系。通过Kili-SES，我们将推进基本的社会生态研究，并为政治和社会决策提供科学依据，这将促进基利曼哈罗自然与人之间可持续关系的转变。

Across the world, human population growth and increasing demands for natural resources lead to the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, mostly driven by land-use, climate and governance change. A key global challenge is, thus, to develop sustainable relationships between people and nature. Addressing this pressing topic requires social-ecological research toward understanding major components of the feedback loop between nature and people, including biodiversity, nature’s contributions to people (NCP), human well-being, governance and indirect and direct anthropogenic drivers. However, such integrative social-ecological research approaches are still in their infancy.The present proposal addresses these challenges at Kilimanjaro, an excellent study region with uniquely large environmental gradients and an unusual variety of stakeholder groups. In Kili-SES we will use a fully integrated, interdisciplinary approach to understand major components of the social-ecological system of Kilimanjaro under land-use, climate and governance change. We address the influence of a broad range of biodiversity components on the supply of regulating, material and non-material NCP. We investigate the supply of NCP in relation to the demand for them by major stakeholder groups, the values they attach to them and their impact on different constituents of human well-being. We consider how institutional and governance systems determine land use and supply of NCP. Finally, we address the direct effect of land-management and conservation measures on biodiversity.The proposal builds on unique data and knowledge obtained during a first ecological Kilimanjaro research unit and during over 30 years of research by A. and C. Hemp. Data will be obtained with various natural and social science methods. This will include the representative sampling of NCP on 65 established research plots. Beyond that, data from interviews, surveys, and social field experiments will be obtained from various stakeholder groups. Combining spatial attributes of plot and stakeholder data with remote sensing information will allow us to upscale data across the whole study region.Our approach will allow us to quantitatively describe and integrate the major components of the Kilimanjaro social-ecological system and their interlinkages in a spatially explicit manner. For example, we plan to analyse trade-offs and synergies in NCP supply, match and mismatch between NCP supply and demand, and relationships between governance, NCP demand and human well-being. With Kili-SES we will advance fundamental social-ecological research and provide a scientific basis for political and societal decision-making that will facilitate transformation towards sustainable relationships between nature and people at Kilimanjaro.