A New Framework for International Collaboration in Critical Zone Science

2015年，英国国家环境研究委员会和中国的国家自然科学基金会资助了英国-中国临界区天文台(英国-中国临界区天文台)在临界区科学领域的首个重大双边合作。在CZOS进行的多学科和多标量研究对于制定应对世界上一些最大的社会生态挑战的政策至关重要。这项博士研究的重点是英国-中国临界区科学与技术研究组织，这项博士研究将提供关于后殖民和女权主义科学与技术研究(STS)提供信息的临界区科学国际合作的第一项研究，并得到对不同社会、文化和政治背景下临界区科学框架的首次系统审查的支持。

In 2015, the UK's National Environment Research Council (NERC) and China's National Natural Science Foundation (NNSF) funded the first major bilateral collaboration in critical zone science, the UK-China Critical Zone Observatory (UK-China CZO). The multi-discipline and multi-scalar research conducted at CZOs is fundamental to developing policy responses to some of the world's greatest socio-ecological challenges. Focusing on the UK-China CZO, this doctoral research will provide the first study of international collaboration in critical zone science informed by postcolonial and feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS), buttressed by the first systematic review of framings of critical zone science in different social, cultural and political contexts.