BE/CNH: Global Change, Globalization, and the Vulnerability of Mountain Systems

BE/CNH：全球变化、全球化和山区系统的脆弱性

• 批准号: 0119865
• 负责人: Lisa Graumlich
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: Montana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-10-01 至 2005-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0119865&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CNH; Global; Change; Globalization; Vulnerability

Mountain regions provide a unique and important setting within which to examine the interplay of global climate change and globalization. This project seeks to strengthen an international, interdisciplinary research network whose goal is to advance understandings of the dynamics of coupled natural and human systems by characterizing the sources of vulnerability of mountain systems to the combined effects of global warming and global economic restructuring. The strategy underlying the project is to develop research ties among scientists from multiple disciplines studying two mountain regions where the individual impacts of climate change and globalization are already strongly manifest and well documented. These regions are: the Greater Yellowstone Region in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho in the United States and the Mount Kilimanjaro Region in Kenya and Tanzania. U.S. and African scientists from the natural and social sciences will meet at workshops held in Montana and Kenya to address a range of emerging questions, such as how biophysical heterogeneity and diversity of institutional arrangements and economic strategies in mountain systems may enhance, reduce, or change in kind and scale the vulnerability of these regions to climate change. Participants from mountain regions in Asia, Europe, and South America also will be invited to participate in these workshops as a first step in expanding the research network globally.This project will lay the groundwork to develop a global research strategy to address the vulnerability of mountain systems to the interacting influences of global change and globalization. Scientifically, mountain regions provide an ideal setting to develop comparative case studies of differential impacts of global change and globalization given that mountain regions are distributed all over the globe, from the Equator almost to the poles and from oceanic to highly continental climates and are experiencing globalization at widely varying rates. Mountain regions also are critically important in assessing the impacts of global change given that they occupy about one-fifth of the Earth's surface and provide goods and services to about half of humanity. This project is an award emanating from the FY 2001 special competition in Biocomplexity in the Environment focusing on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems.

山区提供了一个独特而重要的环境，可以在其中检查全球气候变化和全球化的相互作用。 该项目旨在加强一个国际跨学科的研究网络，其目标是通过表征山系统脆弱性的来源对全球变暖和全球经济重组的综合影响来提高对耦合自然和人类系统动态的理解。 该项目的基础策略是在研究两个山区的多个学科的科学家之间建立研究联系，在这些山区中，气候变化和全球化的个人影响已经得到强烈的体现和充分的文献记载。 这些地区是：蒙大拿州的大黄石地区，怀俄明州和美国的爱达荷州以及肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的乞力马扎罗山地区。 来自自然和社会科学的美国和非洲科学家将在蒙大拿州和肯尼亚举行的研讨会上开会，以解决一系列新兴问题，例如生物物理异质性以及山区系统中制度安排和经济策略的多样性如何增强，减少或改变对这些区域变化的易变和规模变化。 来自亚洲，欧洲和南美山区的参与者也将被邀请参加这些研讨会，以此作为全球扩展研究网络的第一步。该项目将奠定基础，以制定全球研究策略，以解决山系统对全球变化和全球化相互作用的影响的脆弱性。 从科学上讲，山区为全球变化和全球化的差异影响的比较案例研究提供了理想的环境，因为山区在全球范围内分布在赤道几乎几乎到波兰人，从海洋到高度大陆的气候，并且以广泛变化的速度经历全球化。 山区在评估全球变化的影响方面也至关重要，因为它们占据了地球表面的五分之一，并为大约一半的人类提供商品和服务。 该项目是从2001财年的生物复杂性特殊竞争中颁发的，重点是耦合自然和人类系统的动态。