Using climate change information in ecosystems services for poverty alleviation research in China

NERC/DFID/ESRC ESPA研究项目认识到气候变化是生态系统、生态系统服务及其与贫困原因和减轻的联系的变化的关键驱动因素。然而，ESPA方案的许多潜在参与者将不具备在ESPA研究中使用气候变化信息（当前气候和未来气候——从即将到来的季节到未来几十年）的技能和工具。通过一个结构化的知识交流项目，该项目将满足两个主要利益相关者群体的技能需求——中国潜在的ESPA科学家和生活在易受气候变化影响的生态系统中的贫困社区。将有三个活动。首先，我们将建立科学和社会科学研究人员的能力，通过发展和举办重点突出的研讨会，在他们的研究中理解和使用气候信息。其次，我们将调查依赖自然生态系统和管理生态系统维持生计的贫困社区的研究需求，并利用调查、通信制图技术和参与式学习提高这些社区对气候变化影响的认识。最后，我们将通过使用视频日记和关于在ESPA研究中使用气候信息的议程设置文件，将我们的发现传达给其他利益相关者和更广泛的受众。建立一个双语的、基于网络的ESPA气候网络将鼓励研究人员的继续参与。该项目首次将来自英国和中国的世界领先的气候研究机构的气候和气候影响研究人员聚集在一起，他们在研究和培训方面都享有卓越的国际声誉，目的是在中国不断扩大的ESPA社区中建立使用气候信息的能力。

The NERC/DFID/ESRC ESPA research programme recognises climate change as a key driver of change in ecosystems, ecosystems services and their links with the causes and alleviation of poverty. However, many of the potential participants in the ESPA programme will not have the skills and tools to use climate change information (in current climates and future climates - from the coming season to many decades ahead) in ESPA research. Through a structured programme of knowledge exchange, this project will address the skills needs of two major stakeholder groups - potential ESPA researchers in China and poor communities living in ecosystems vulnerable to climate change. There will be three activities. First, we will build the capacity of science and social science researchers to understand and use climate information in their research through the development and delivery of focused workshops. Second, we will survey the research needs of poor communities dependant on natural and managed ecosystems for their livelihoods and raise awareness of climate change impacts in these communities using surveys, communication mapping techniques and participatory learning. Last, we will communicate our findings to other stakeholders and a wider audience through the use of video diaries and an agenda-setting document on the use of climate information in ESPA research. The continued engagement of researchers will be encouraged by setting up a dual language, web-based ESPA Climate Network. This project brings together for the first time a unique group of climate and climate impacts researchers from world-leading institutions concerned with climate in the UK and China, each with international reputations for excellence in research and training, in order to build capacity in using climate information within the expanding ESPA community in China.