Belmont Forum-G8 Collaborative Research: DELTAS: Catalyzing action towards sustainability of deltaic systems with an integrated modeling framework for risk assessment

贝尔蒙特论坛-G8 合作研究：三角洲：通过风险评估综合建模框架促进三角洲系统可持续性行动

• 批准号: 1748682
• 负责人: Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
• 金额: $ 7.43万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-30 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1748682&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; G8; Collaborative; Research

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 develop a versatile modeling framework that can be applied to evaluate the unique functioning, critical stressors, and vulnerability of the world?s deltas. Deltas are economically and environmentally important systems, sustaining a large portion of the world?s populations, economic activity, and ecosystems. These systems are deteriorating rapidly due to climate changes, catchment changes, and local exploitation and ecosystem degradation. This project will develop an evidence-based framework for global delta sustainability by (1) advancing delta sustainability science as critical coupled human-natural systems; (2) co-design, -develop, and -deliver an evidence-based sustainability framework for risk assessment and decision support; (3) build an international repository of integrated delta datasets; and (4) develop and implement a modeling and decision support framework in partnership with local stakeholders. Applicable from local to national levels, this framework will be applied to three case-studies in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, Mekong, and Amazon deltas. This project will contribute toward effective regional delta management and governance by providing a mechanism to integrate social, economic, bio-physical, and ecosystem services components to assess delta vulnerability and guide sustainable management strategies and decisions across scales, in collaboration with experts and stakeholders.

该奖项为参与由 13 个国家的全球变化研究倡议通过贝尔蒙特论坛和八国集团国家研究委员会负责人竞争性选出的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是由全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的世界主要和新兴资助者组成的高级别团体。 它旨在通过调整和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。八国集团研究理事会首脑制定了一个资助框架，以支持多边研究项目，以超出国家或双边活动能力的方式应对全球挑战。每个伙伴国家都在一个联盟内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨境资金的需求。 这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。 在国际机会基金的首次呼吁中，贝尔蒙特论坛和 G8HORC 共同努力，为研究项目提供支持，这些项目旨在提供采取行动减轻和适应与淡水安全或沿海脆弱性相关的有害环境变化和极端危险事件所需的知识。 该奖项为美国研究人员在联盟中进行合作提供支持，该联盟由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户（例如政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）聚集在一起。 该奖项支持研究活动，这些活动将开发一个多功能建模框架，可用于评估世界三角洲的独特功能、关键压力源和脆弱性。三角洲是经济和环境上重要的系统，维持着世界上很大一部分人口、经济活动和生态系统。由于气候变化、流域变化以及当地开发和生态系统退化，这些系统正在迅速恶化。该项目将通过以下方式为全球三角洲可持续性发展一个基于证据的框架：（1）将三角洲可持续性科学推进为关键的人类与自然耦合系统； (2) 共同设计、开发和交付基于证据的可持续性框架，用于风险评估和决策支持； (3) 建立国际三角洲综合数据集存储库； (4) 与当地利益相关者合作开发并实施建模和决策支持框架。该框架适用于从地方到国家层面，将应用于恒河-雅鲁藏布江-梅格纳河、湄公河和亚马逊三角洲的三个案例研究。该项目将与专家和利益相关者合作，提供整合社会、经济、生物物理和生态系统服务组成部分的机制，以评估三角洲脆弱性并指导跨规模的可持续管理战略和决策，从而为有效的区域三角洲管理和治理做出贡献。