RCN-SEES: Network for Utilization of Social Science Research on Sustainability and Energy (NUSSRoSE)

RCN-SEES：可持续发展和能源社会科学研究利用网络 (NUSSRoSE)

• 批准号: 1140174
• 负责人: Elke Weber
• 金额: $ 31.8万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-11-01 至 2014-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140174&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; SEES; Network; Utilization; Social

Climate change offers a unique challenge for human problem solving. Whereas evolution has equipped us to address immediate threats to life or limb, climate change is a slow-moving threat, largely understood through the eyes of climate scientists, who admit uncertainty in how quickly or slowly change will take place. It is not surprising that polling shows that even the US public persuaded by the science does not give this issue priority. Nevertheless, significant action is required now to contain a threat that may not fully manifest itself for decades. An increasingly rich body of work in a range of behavioral sciences - including cognitive and social psychology, anthropology, behavioral economics and sociology - is examining human cognition and motivation and gaining insights about decision processes. This research may hold the key to building constituencies for addressing climate change and for motivating behavioral change. However, its results are largely confined to academic literature, and locked, for the most part, in stylized language that is not always accessible to the many non-governmental organizations, businesses and others who would benefit from its insights. Our Research Coordination Network (RCN) is designed to make the insights gained from this work more accessible to practitioners. Work now underway and anticipated will provide insights into alternative ways to address climate challenge and its unique demand for upfront investments to deliver benefits that are by necessity uncertain and far into the future, accruing to future generations and to geographically distant regions. The network will act as a market maker, using physical and virtual meetings and a software platform to create a forum for the integration and sharing of theory, results, and experience (a) across disciplinary lines, to stimulate robust cross-fertilization, additional research, cross-training of postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members, and (b) between the academic supply side and the practitioner demand side building better two-way communication between these two communities. Our RCN will help build a multi- or trans-disciplinary sub-specialty that will raise the status, profile and reach of individual efforts as well as create awareness for the need of institutional support to maintain and use research output of this sort, attracting more creative minds into the effort, including young researchers. Equally important, the RCN will find systematic ways for dissemination and to connect research to application. It will do so in part by integrating into this platform approach the knowledge and needs of the non-governmental world and of government policy-makers.

气候变化给人类解决问题带来了独特的挑战。虽然进化使我们能够应对对生命或肢体的直接威胁，但气候变化是一种缓慢变化的威胁，这在很大程度上是通过气候科学家的视角来理解的，他们承认变化发生的速度或缓慢程度存在不确定性。毫不奇怪，民意调查显示，即使是被科学说服的美国公众也没有优先考虑这个问题。然而，现在需要采取重大行动来遏制可能在几十年内不会完全显现的威胁。一系列行为科学（包括认知和社会心理学、人类学、行为经济学和社会学）中越来越丰富的工作正在研究人类的认知和动机，并获得有关决策过程的见解。这项研究可能是建立支持者应对气候变化和激励行为改变的关键。然而，其结果很大程度上局限于学术文献，并且在很大程度上被锁定在程式化的语言中，而许多非政府组织、企业和其他将从其见解中受益的人并不总是能够理解这些语言。我们的研究协调网络 (RCN) 旨在让从业者更容易获得从这项工作中获得的见解。目前正在进行和预期的工作将深入了解应对气候挑战的替代方法及其对前期投资的独特需求，以提供必然不确定的、遥远的未来的效益，为子孙后代和地理遥远的地区带来好处。该网络将充当做市商，利用实体和虚拟会议以及软件平台创建一个论坛，以整合和分享跨学科的理论、成果和经验（a），以刺激强有力的交叉融合、额外研究，博士后研究员和初级教员的交叉培训，以及（b）学术供给方和从业人员需求方之间建立更好的双向沟通​​。我们的 RCN 将帮助建立一个多学科或跨学科的子专业，以提高个人努力的地位、形象和影响力，并提高人们对需要机构支持来维护和使用此类研究成果的认识，吸引更多的人创造性思维投入到努力中，包括年轻的研究人员。同样重要的是，RCN 将找到系统的传播方式并将研究与应用联系起来。它将通过将非政府世界和政府政策制定者的知识和需求整合到这个平台中来实现这一目标。