Collaborative Research: Arctic Horizons Social Science and the High North

合作研究：北极地平线社会科学与高北地区

• 批准号: 1608606
• 负责人: Kevin Smith
• 金额: $ 5.44万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 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: 2015-12-15 至 2017-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1608606&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Arctic; Horizons; Social

Over the past 15 years, the Arctic has experienced substantial social and environmental transformations. Some of these changes are on pace with predictions of the late 1990s, but others have occurred much more rapidly than expected. Many of the documented and anticipated shifts in the Arctic are linked to environmental change: changing sea ice and snow cover, coastal erosion leading to displacement of modern villages and destruction of preserved archaeological sites, questions of subsistence food security, increased shipping and oil exploration, with their associated economic impacts (positive and negative) and risk of oil spills, to name just a few. Many other changes in the Arctic are largely independent of changing climate: continued loss of Native languages, high rates of unemployment, domestic violence and substance abuse, and the increased influence of social media among and between isolated communities of the high north. Yet, while the North has always seemed remote and marginal to global or US national interests, Arctic people and environments are increasingly connected socially, economically, and environmentally to those living to the south. The potential for an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, for example, opens up possibilities for new shipping routes shifting economic costs and benefits for global markets, for expanded exploitation of the circumpolar basin?s fossil fuel and mineral resources, and for attendant new focus on the north as an economic and security zone of strategic and tactical importance. All of these potential transformations have impacts not only on the United States? northernmost communities, but also on the global and national economic, social, and cultural systems best studied by social scientists in interdisciplinary collaborations capable of providing information and strategies of need for policy development and community development. The National Science Foundation?s Arctic Social Sciences Program (ASSP) is the leading source of funding for U.S.-based social sciences research in the Arctic. Just as the Arctic has changed, arctic social sciences have experienced substantial growth and development, transitioning from an emerging field of research to a well-established multidisciplinary research area; yet the research priorities for NSF?s Arctic Social Sciences program were last updated in 1999. The Arctic Horizons project will bring together members of the Arctic social science research and indigenous communities to reassess the goals, potentials, and needs of these diverse communities and ASSP within the context of a rapidly changing circumpolar North. A series of five topical and regional workshops held across the country will bring together approximately 150 western and indigenous scholars to discuss the future of Arctic social science research. Additional participation by the broader Arctic social sciences, indigenous science, and stakeholder communities will be solicited through an interactive web platform that will also share workshop and project outcomes, supported by special sessions at national and regional conferences. The results of the workshops and on-line input will be compiled at a final synthesis workshop with a report produced to describes the community's vision for the future of Arctic social science research. This re-envisioning process will help shape future Arctic social science research and inform Arctic economic, environmental, and political policy development.Arctic Horizons project provides a framework and process that will bring together the Arctic social science research and Arctic indigenous communities to reassess goals, potentials, and needs in the diverse disciplinary and transdisciplinary currents of social science research of the circumpolar North. A series of five regional workshops and one synthesis workshop will engage approximately 150 western and indigenous scholars in the re-visioning process. Additional participation by the broader Arctic social sciences, indigenous science, and stakeholder communities will be solicited through an interactive web platform that will also be used to share workshop and project outcomes (e.g. videos of speakers, workshop notes, copy of the report), as well as through special sessions at regional conferences (e.g. Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Arctic Science Summit Week, Association of American Geographers). Whenever possible, keynote addresses will be video live cast through the platform and preserved for convenient review. Dynamic embeddable data visualizations will present the running results of project analytics, including text analysis of associations in the transcripts of workshop discussions, participant survey results, citation surveys, and an analysis of all 737 NSF grants issued since 1981. The resulting community-based vision will inform research investments for Arctic social science research over the next decade. Arctic social sciences have experienced substantial growth and development over the past 15 years, transitioning from an emerging field of research to a well-established multidisciplinary research area since the last arctic social sciences visioning workshop held in 1999. The project is the collaboration of five institutions, all of which have a strong history of supporting Arctic social science research (UAF and Brown) or are developing new programs that support Arctic social science research (UNI and PSU). The process will be overseen by a senior advisory panel that includes social scientists and indigenous community members. The project will leverage the broad research networks of the PIs to recruit participation from a diverse and wide-ranging group of early, mid and senior career scholars, ensuring gender and disciplinary equity and the participation of underrepresented groups. This will be achieved through targeted invitation to workshops, a promotional campaign for web input through electronic media, and through participant recruitment at conferences and meetings. The capstone event is a synthesis workshop where the information generated at each of the regional/topical workshops and the on-line input will be combined in a report on the research priorities collectively identified by the Arctic social sciences community.

在过去的15年中，北极经历了实质性的社会和环境转变。其中一些变化与1990年代后期的预测相同，但其他变化的发生率比预期的要快得多。北极的许多有记录和预期的转变与环境变化有关：改变海冰和雪覆盖，沿海侵蚀导致现代村庄的流离失所以及保存的考古遗址的销毁，生存食品安全的问题，增加运输和石油勘探，以及与其相关的经济影响（正面和负面影响（正面和负面））以及溢油的风险，以少数几个命名。北极的许多其他变化在很大程度上独立于气候变化：持续丧失母语，高失业率，家庭暴力和滥用毒品，以及社交媒体在高北部孤立社区之间的影响力增加。然而，尽管北方似乎总是对全球或美国国家的利益，但北极的人和环境在社会，经济和环境上与居住在南方的人们之间的联系越来越多。例如，越来越多的无冰北极海洋的潜力为新运输路线的转移和全球市场的收益开辟了可能性，扩大了对千古盆地的化石燃料和矿产资源的开发，以及作为战略和战术重要性的经济和安全区域的北部新焦点。所有这些潜在的转变不仅对美国产生了影响？最北端的社区，以及社会科学家在跨学科合作中最好地研究的全球和国家经济，社会和文化体系，能够提供政策发展和社区发展需求的信息和策略。 国家科学基金会的北极社会科学计划（ASSP）是美国北极社会科学研究的主要资金来源。正如北极的变化一样，北极社会科学经历了实质性的增长和发展，从新兴的研究领域过渡到建立良好的多学科研究领域；然而，NSF的北极社会科学计划的研究重点是在1999年进行的。北极地区的项目将召集北极社会科学研究和土著社区的成员，以重新评估这些多样化的社区和屁股在迅速变化的跨千差万化北面的背景下的目标，潜力和需求。在全国范围内举行的五个主题和区域研讨会将汇集大约150名西方和土著学者，讨论北极社会科学研究的未来。更广泛的北极社会科学，土著科学和利益相关者社区的额外参与将通过交互式网络平台进行招募，该平台还将共享研讨会和项目成果，并得到国家和地区会议的特殊会议的支持。 研讨会和在线输入的结果将在最终的综合研讨会上汇编，并提供了一份报告，以描述社区对北极社会科学研究未来的愿景。这种重新涉及的过程将有助于塑造未来的北极社会科学研究，并为北极经济，环境和政治政策发展提供依据。阿尔克族层面项目提供了一个框架和过程，将北极社会科学研究和北极本地社区汇集在一起​​，以使社会科学研究的多元化和跨学科研究中的多元化和跨学科研究中的潜在和潜在的目标和潜在的需求融合在一起。 一系列的五个区域研讨会和一个合成研讨会将在重新审视过程中与大约150个西方和土著学者互动。 Additional participation by the broader Arctic social sciences, indigenous science, and stakeholder communities will be solicited through an interactive web platform that will also be used to share workshop and project outcomes (e.g. videos of speakers, workshop notes, copy of the report), as well as through special sessions at regional conferences (e.g. Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Arctic Sc​​ience Summit Week, Association of American地理学家）。只要有可能，主题演讲将通过平台进行视频现场直播，并保存以方便审查。动态嵌入的数据可视化将介绍项目分析的运行结果，包括在研讨会讨论，参与者调查结果，引文调查以及对自1981年以来所有737 NSF赠款的分析中的转录中进行的文本分析。产生的基于社区的NSF赠款。由此产生的基于社区的愿景将为您接下来的十年中的北极社会科学研究提供信息。自从上一次北极社会科学愿景研讨会以来，北极社会科学在过去15年中经历了实质性的增长和发展，从新兴领域过渡到建立了良好的多学科研究领域。 PSU）。 该过程将由包括社会科学家和土著社区成员在内的高级咨询小组监督。 该项目将利用PI的广泛研究网络从早期，中和高级职业学者组成的多样化和广泛的群体中招募参与，从而确保性别和纪律平等以及代表性不足的群体的参与。 这将通过有针对性的邀请参加研讨会，通过电子媒体进行Web输入的促销活动以及在会议和会议上的参与者招聘来实现。 Capstone活动是一个合成研讨会，在该研讨会上，每个区域/局部研讨会上生成的信息将在北极社会科学社区共同确定的研究优先级报告中合并在线输入。