U.S.-Nepal Research Planning Visit: Impacts of Climate on Rural Communities in the Gandaki River Watershed, Nepal

美国-尼泊尔研究计划访问：气候对尼泊尔甘达基河流域农村社区的影响

• 批准号: 1444206
• 负责人: Joseph Galewsky
• 金额: $ 3.08万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-15 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1444206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Nepal; Research; Planning; Visit

Changing cimate has the potential to disrupt rural communities worldwide, and there is a pressing need to test existing theories and conceptual models of community resiliency to such changes. The remarkable variability in social and ecological systems along the Gandaki River corridor in Nepal's Himalayan range provides ideal conditions to test these theories, and the goal of this project is to support a three-week research planning trip to develop collaborative relationships with Nepalese partners and to finalize research hypotheses on the impacts of changing climate on rural communities in the region. By supporting U.S. researchers in Economics, Civil Engineering, and Earth Sciences to develop new international collaborations, this project helps to strengthen the nation's STEM capabilities.The primary focus area for this planning visit is the Gandaki River Corridor. The Gandaki is one of the major rivers of Nepal and it transects remarkably diverse landscapes from the arid Tibetan Plateau, through the Siwalik foothills, and into the humid Terai plains. The U.S.-based research team includes an atmospheric scientist, an economist, and a water resources engineer. The Nepalese partners include top researchers from both social and physical science backgrounds. Specifically, the primary collaboration coordinator in Nepal is Dr. Siddhartha Bajracharya, a senior environmental research scientist at the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), who has extensive experience working along the Gandaki corridor. Three U.S. graduate students will also participate in the project. This planning visit represents an initial step in the team's long-term research goal to advance understanding of the linkages and feedback mechanisms between biophysical and social factors that influence vulnerability and resilience to changing climate across interacting spatial, temporal, and organizational scales.

不断变化的激情有可能破坏全球农村社区，并且迫切需要测试现有的理论和概念上的社区弹性模型，以使社区弹性能够弹性。 尼泊尔的喜马拉雅山脉的甘达基河走廊沿甘达基河走廊的社会和生态系统的显着差异为检验这些理论提供了理想的条件，该项目的目标是支持为期三周的研究计划之旅，以与尼泊尔伙伴建立协作关系，并最终确定对该地区农村社区变化的影响的研究假设。 通过支持美国经济学，土木工程和地球科学的研究人员开发新的国际合作，该项目有助于增强国家的STEM能力。这次计划访问的主要重点领域是甘达基河走廊。甘达基（Gandaki）是尼泊尔的主要河流之一，它通过西瓦利克（Siwalik）山麓（Siwalik Foothills）从干旱的藏族高原造福了，并进入了潮湿的Terai Plains。总部位于美国的研究团队包括大气科学家，一名经济学家和水资源工程师。尼泊尔的伙伴包括来自社会和物理科学背景的顶级研究人员。具体来说，尼泊尔的主要合作协调员是国家自然保护基金会（NTNC）的高级环境研究科学家Siddhartha Bajracharya博士，他在甘达基走廊上工作了丰富的经验。三名美国研究生也将参加该项目。这次计划访问代表了团队长期研究目标的第一步，以促进对生物物理和社会因素之间的联系和反馈机制的理解，这些因素和社会因素影响了脆弱性和韧性，跨越互动的空间，时间和组织量表的气候变化。