Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Enhancing Adaptation and Resilience to Drought in Dry Tropical Social-Ecological Systems: The Guyanacaste, Costa Rica Example

贝尔蒙特论坛 - G8 倡议合作研究：增强干旱热带社会生态系统对干旱的适应和恢复力：哥斯达黎加圭亚那卡斯特的例子

• 批准号: 1342941
• 负责人: Mitchell Small
• 金额: $ 63.92万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1342941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; G8; Initiative; Collaborative

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 13-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum and the G8 countries Heads of Research Councils. The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the world's major and emerging funders of global environmental change research and international science councils. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. The G8 Heads of Research Councils developed a funding framework to support multilateral research projects that address global challenges in ways that are beyond the capacity of national or bilateral activities. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in an inaugural call of the International Opportunities Fund, the Belmont Forum and G8HORCs have provided support for research projects that seek to deliver knowledge needed for action to mitigate and adapt to detrimental environmental change and extreme hazardous events that relate to either Freshwater Security or Coastal Vulnerability. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). This award supports research activities that will identify future drought adaptation options, with an emphasis on building resilience to water scarcity in drought prone social-ecological systems, using the arid Northwest region of Costa Rica as a case study. Resilience to drought requires development of coherent conceptual and scientific knowledge as well as an improved understanding of human and institutional responses to events and forecasts. The goal of this project is to contribute to the sustainable management of water resources for the benefit of both society as well as ecosystems. The project will do this by (1) characterizing current physical and social conditions; (2) modeling the impacts of changing climate and weather on resources, people and other drivers of change; and (3) developing new methods for and implementation of decision aids, including the development of practical new heuristics, communication, and outreach. These efforts will contribute important aspects of drought management and adaptation, with applications both to dry tropical environments and more broadly to drought sensitive coupled socio-ecological systems. The project will contribute toward an improved and integrated understanding of the monitoring and modeling of aquifers, agriculture, ecosystem services, climate scenarios, and weather forecasts.

该奖项为参加一个由13个国家 /地区的倡议通过Belmont论坛和G8国家研究委员会负责人竞争性选择的项目提供了支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是全球环境变化研究和国际科学委员会的全球主要和新兴资助者的高级小组。 它的目的是加速最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以通过对齐和动员国际资源来消除可持续性的关键障碍。 G8研究委员会负责人开发了一个资金框架，以支持多边研究项目，这些项目以超出国家或双边活动能力的方式应对全球挑战。每个合作伙伴国家为财团内的研究人员提供资金，以减轻资金越过国际边界的需求。 这种方法促进了有效利用国家资源的有效利用，以支持有关全球相关性主题的出色研究，最好通过跨国方法来解决全球相关性，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在国际机遇基金的首届呼吁中，Belmont Forum和G8HORCS共同努力，为沿着范围造成的知识提供了危害环境，以使范围内的范围进行危害和极端的环境，以使其提供了危险，以使环境变得更改，以使环境变得更改，以使环境变得更改，以使环境变得更改。脆弱性。 该奖项为美国的研究人员提供了支持，以在财团中合作，该公司由来自至少三个参与国家的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家，社会科学家和研究用户汇集在一起​​（例如，政策制定者，监管机构，非政府组织，社区和行业）。 该奖项支持将确定未来干旱适应选择的研究活动，重点是利用哥斯达黎加西北地区的案例研究来建立易于干旱的社会生态系统中水稀缺性的韧性。对干旱的韧性需要发展一致的概念和科学知识，并对人类和机构对事件和预测的反应有了改进的理解。该项目的目的是为水资源的可持续管理做出贡献，以使社会和生态系统受益。该项目将通过（1）表征当前的身体和社会状况来做到这一点； （2）建模气候和天气对资源，人们和其他变革驱动因素的影响； （3）开发新方法和实施决策辅助工具，包括开发实用的新启发式方法，沟通和外展。这些努力将贡献干旱管理和适应的重要方面，并在干燥的热带环境中应用，更广泛地用于干旱敏感的社会生态系统。该项目将有助于对含水层，农业，生态系统服务，气候场景和天气预测的监测和建模的改进和综合理解做出贡献。