Biocomplexity Incubation Activity: Integrating Social Science Into Long-Term Ecological Research

生物复杂性孵化活动：将社会科学融入长期生态研究

• 批准号: 0083744
• 负责人: Charles Redman
• 金额: $ 9.93万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0083744&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biocomplexity; Incubation; Activity; Integrating; Social

The rapid growth in understandings of the complex ways that human and natural systems interact in a broad range of environments have led to intensified calls for greater collaboration among social and natural scientists in the study of long-term environmental change. Major differences in theoretical perspectives, vocabulary, organizational structure, and scientific culture have inhibited these collaborations, but increasing numbers of researchers in both the human and natural sciences now are looking to bridge the gaps that previously separated them. This Biocomplexity Incubation Activity award will provide support to enable the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) project in collaboration with the Baltimore Ecosystems Study (BES LTER) to hold a series of workshops to promote the integration of social sciences into long-term ecological research. The project's primary objective will be to spark scientifically exciting interdisciplinary research that brings together social, biological, and physical scientists to better understand human ecosystems. The project is based on a previous workshop where social and biophysical scientists reached a consensus on a broad conceptual framework for investigating human ecosystems and proposed a set of social patterns and processes key to their study. Because a unified understanding of human ecosystems needs to be taken in incremental steps, four research projects will be identified where investigators agree that bringing together social, biological, and physical scientists would lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms that govern ecosystem dynamics. An initial workshop focusing on the practical issues will help the four research projects implement integrated research. A second workshop will focus in depth on the proposed social patterns and processes and suggest ways these core topics can be implemented in the pilot projects. A final workshop will develop specific ways the proposed projects can accommodate the multiple spatial and temporal scales of the human ecosystem. This project will facilitate the development and dissemination of strategies for integration. The focus on four pilot projects will enable pragmatic solutions to emerge, with these solutions providing insights that will facilitate planning for enhanced involvement of social scientists by additional LTER sites. This sustained effort will foster progressive steps toward the integration of the social sciences into long-term ecological research and development of a unified understanding of human ecosystems, one of the most urgent challenges to understanding biocomplexity and the environment.

人们对人类和自然系统在各种环境中相互作用的复杂方式的理解迅速增长，人们越来越强烈地呼吁社会科学家和自然科学家在长期环境变化的研究中加强合作。 理论观点、词汇、组织结构和科学文化方面的重大差异阻碍了这些合作，但越来越多的人文科学和自然科学研究人员现在正在寻求弥合以前分隔他们的差距。 该生物复杂性孵化活动奖将为亚利桑那中心-菲尼克斯长期生态研究 (CAP LTER) 项目与巴尔的摩生态系统研究 (BES LTER) 合作举办一系列研讨会提供支持，以促进社会科学融入长期的生态研究。 该项目的主要目标是激发科学上令人兴奋的跨学科研究，将社会、生物和物理科学家聚集在一起，以更好地了解人类生态系统。 该项目基于之前的一次研讨会，社会和生物物理学科学家就研究人类生态系统的广泛概念框架达成了共识，并提出了一套对其研究至关重要的社会模式和过程。 由于对人类生态系统的统一理解需要逐步进行，因此将确定四个研究项目，研究人员一致认为，将社会、生物和物理科学家聚集在一起将有助于更好地理解控制生态系统动态的机制。 以实际问题为重点的初步研讨会将帮助这四个研究项目实施综合研究。 第二次研讨会将深入讨论拟议的社会模式和流程，并提出在试点项目中实施这些核心主题的方法。 最后的研讨会将开发拟议项目适应人类生态系统的多个空间和时间尺度的具体方法。 该项目将促进一体化战略的制定和传播。 对四个试点项目的关注将使务实的解决方案得以出现，这些解决方案提供的见解将有助于规划通过其他 LTER 站点加强社会科学家的参与。 这种持续的努力将促进社会科学融入长期生态研究和发展对人类生态系统的统一理解，这是理解生物复杂性和环境的最紧迫挑战之一。